Term ends Dec 15, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 15, 2034
Held by Imagination Technologies Limited
Filed Aug 20, 2021 as application 17/408,276 · Granted Aug 15, 2023
Base term plus 33 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Dec 15, 2014
Dec 15, 2014
Term ends
Dec 15, 2034
Dec 15, 2034
Granted
Aug 15, 2023
Aug 15, 2023
base term
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
33
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,068,367, US 10,719,973.
0 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.
8
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 33 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are 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 15, 2014, when application 14/570,314, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 20, 2021) | Dec 15, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +33 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 17, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,068,367, US 10,719,973) | capped to Dec 15, 2034 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 15, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,607,426 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 10,068,367 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| US 10,719,973 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| US 11,127,191 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| US 11,727,623 | this patent Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| US 12,165,253 | In force no later than Dec 2034 | no later than Dec 2034 |
| Application 18/968,888 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 19/233,274 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 31, 2024 Reel 68221, frame 1 | Imagination Technologies Limited | Fortress Investment Group (UK) Ltd. | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2034
Term ends Dec 15, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 33 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,068,367, US 10,719,973.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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