Term ends May 17, 2031 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends May 17, 2031
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 12,022,108), so the cap could be lower.
Held by InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
Filed May 10, 2024 as application 18/660,738 · Granted Sep 23, 2025
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
May 17, 2011
May 17, 2011
Term ends
May 17, 2031
May 17, 2031
Granted
Sep 23, 2025
Sep 23, 2025
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,021,412, US 10,721,490, US 12,022,108, US 9,510,009, to May 17, 2031. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it 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 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. 0 of 1 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 May 17, 2011, when application PCT/US2011/036770, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 10, 2024) | May 17, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,021,412, US 10,721,490, US 12,022,108, US 9,510,009) | resolves to May 17, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no change | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 17, 2031 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2011/036770 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,510,009 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 10,021,412 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 10,721,490 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| Application 16/904,695 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,022,108 | In force no later than May 2031 | no later than May 2031 |
| US 12,425,637 | this patent May 2031 | May 2031 |
| Application 19/308,513 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2024 Reel 67419, frame 605 | Thomson Licensing | InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 15, 2024 Reel 67420, frame 136 | Guo, Liwei; Yin, Peng; Zheng, Yunfei; Xu, Qian; Lu, Xiaoan | Thomson Licensing | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 4, 2024 Reel 67614, frame 624 | Guo, Liwei; Yin, Peng; Zheng, Yunfei; Sole, Joel; Xu, Qian; Lu, Xiaoan | Thomson Licensing | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2031
Term ends May 17, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,021,412, US 10,721,490, US 12,022,108, US 9,510,009, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
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