Term ends Apr 25, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 25, 2037
Held by Silicon Motion, Inc.
Filed Feb 22, 2022 as application 17/676,853 · Granted Feb 27, 2024
Base term plus 111 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Apr 25, 2017
Apr 25, 2017
Term ends
Apr 25, 2037
Apr 25, 2037
Granted
Feb 27, 2024
Feb 27, 2024
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
111
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 11,323,133.
0 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
6
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 111 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 3 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 Apr 25, 2017, when application 15/495,992, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 22, 2022) | Apr 25, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +111 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 14, 2037 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,323,133) | capped to Apr 25, 2037 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 25, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,236,908 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 10,771,091 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 11,323,133 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 11,916,569 | this patent Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 12,283,971 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 12,785,719 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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What's changing
Apr 2037
Term ends Apr 25, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 111 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 11,323,133.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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