Term ended no later than Feb 28, 2021 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 21, 2020
Held by Rambus Inc.
Filed Apr 15, 2004 as application 10/824,734 · Granted Nov 21, 2006
Base term plus 160 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Ended no later than Feb 28, 2021
2000
2026
Clock starts
Sep 21, 2000
Sep 21, 2000
Ended no later than
Feb 28, 2021
Feb 28, 2021
Granted
Nov 21, 2006
Nov 21, 2006
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
160
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
45
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 160 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Sep 21, 2000, when application 09/666,208, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 15, 2004); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Sep 21, 2020 | 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 | +160 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 28, 2021 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium 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 | no later than Feb 28, 2021 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 6,754,866 | Term ended Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Application 10/205,883 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 6,812,726 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 6,882,171 | Term ended Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 7,006,940 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2018 | Feb 2018 |
| US 7,139,945 | this patent no later than Feb 2021 | no later than Feb 2021 |
| US 7,103,815 | Term ended Sep 2021 | Sep 2021 |
| US 7,240,254 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2019 | Jul 2019 |
8 of 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2009 Reel 22597, frame 896 | Inapac Technology, Inc. | Rambus Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 160 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Feb 28, 2021. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2006 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.