Also listed on Agnitio SL, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Aug 30, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 12, 2032
Held by Cirrus Logic, Inc.
Filed Jul 2, 2020 as application 16/920,137 · Granted Jan 3, 2023
Base term plus 261 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2033
Clock starts
Dec 12, 2012
Dec 12, 2012
Term ends
Aug 30, 2033
Aug 30, 2033
Granted
Jan 3, 2023
Jan 3, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
261
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 261 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 12, 2012, when application 13/712,711, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 2, 2020) | Dec 12, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +261 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 30, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 30, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,042,867 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2023 | May 2023 |
| US 9,917,833 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 10,749,864 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 11,545,155 | this patent Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2020 Reel 53112, frame 643 | Gomar, Marta Garcia | Agnitio SL | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 3, 2020 Reel 53388, frame 734 | Agnitio, S.l. | Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 28, 2022 Reel 61577, frame 309 | Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd. | Cirrus Logic, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2033
Term ends Aug 30, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 261 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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