Term ended Oct 3, 2026 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 3, 2026
Filed Jan 4, 2023 as application 18/093,234 · Granted Oct 15, 2024
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Oct 3, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Oct 3, 2006
Oct 3, 2006
Term ended
Oct 3, 2026
Oct 3, 2026
Granted
Oct 15, 2024
Oct 15, 2024
base term
after the term ends
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,792,858, US 9,276,961, to Oct 3, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: Low. 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 Oct 3, 2006, when application 11/542,507, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 4, 2023); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 3, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,792,858, US 9,276,961) | resolves to Oct 3, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 15005686, 11542507, 11542507, 15005686 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 3, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,792,858 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
| US 9,276,961 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 11,153,755 | In force no later than Dec 2026 | no later than Dec 2026 |
| US 12,108,251 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 12,120,513 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Application 18/830,287 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2024 Reel 66373, frame 181 | Swisscom AG | InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,792,858, US 9,276,961, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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