Term ended Nov 6, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 19, 2021
Held by III Holdings 1, LLC
Filed Nov 19, 2001 as application 09/988,219 · Granted Feb 15, 2005
Base term plus 352 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 6, 2022
2001
2026
Clock starts
Nov 19, 2001
Nov 19, 2001
Term ended
Nov 6, 2022
Nov 6, 2022
Granted
Feb 15, 2005
Feb 15, 2005
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
352
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
156
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 352 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Nov 19, 2001, when this application, 09/988,219, was filed | Nov 19, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +352 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 6, 2022 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 6, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 60/325,215 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 60/326,199 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 6,856,945 | this patent Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 6,711,219 | Term ended Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Application 60/333,143 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 60/348,106 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 6,750,818 | Term ended Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| US 7,158,559 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
8 of 156 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 2001 Reel 12314, frame 817 | Thomas, John K.; Narayan, Anand P. | Tensorcomm Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 8, 2010 Reel 24202, frame 408 | Thomas, John; Narayan, Anand | Tensorcomm, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Application Number Previously Recorded on Reel 012314 Frame 0817. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Apr 9, 2010 Reel 24202, frame 630 | Tensorcomm, Inc. | Rambus, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 19, 2010 Reel 24706, frame 648 | Tensorcomm, Inc. | Rambus Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Information Previously Recorded on Reel 024202 Frame 0630. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Apr 9, 2014 Reel 32642, frame 115 | Rambus Inc. | III Holdings 1, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 352 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
24
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2005 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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