Lapsed Jul 17, 2015 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 16, 2022
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Invensas Corporation
Filed Nov 17, 2003 as application 10/478,269 · Granted Jul 17, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 39 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 17, 2015
2002
2026
Clock starts
May 16, 2002
May 16, 2002
No longer in force
Jul 17, 2015
Jul 17, 2015
Granted
Jul 17, 2007
Jul 17, 2007
Term would have run to
Jun 24, 2022
Jun 24, 2022
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
39
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
222
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jun 24, 2022: its 20-year base term plus 39 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 May 16, 2002, when application PCT/IB2002/001734, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 17, 2003) | May 16, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +39 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 24, 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 17, 2015 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 17, 2015 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,055,072 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 7,647,445 | Term ended Sep 2021 | Sep 2021 |
| US 7,245,005 | this patent Jul 2015 | Jul 2015 |
| US 6,858,946 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2017 | Feb 2017 |
| US 7,119,421 | Term ended Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 7,454,188 | Term ended Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 7,361,976 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 7,578,425 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2021 | Aug 2021 |
8 of 222 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 2004 Reel 15502, frame 58 | Buhr, Wolfgang | Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.v. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 17, 2007 Reel 19719, frame 843 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | NXP B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 19, 2011 Reel 26306, frame 231 | Moll, Rainer; Schober, Joachim Heinz | U.S. Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Name of Conveying Party Buhr Previously Recorded on Reel 015502 Frame 0058. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Conveying Parties Are Moll & Schober. |
| Aug 8, 2011 Reel 26725, frame 852 | NXP Semiconductors N.V., on Behalf of Its Subsidiaries, Including NXP B.V. | Invensas Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 14, 2012 Reel 28407, frame 179 | NXP Semiconductors N.V., on Behalf of Itself and Its Subsidiaries, Including NXP B.V. | Invensas Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct Name of Conveying Parties Previously Recorded on Reel 026725, Frame 0852. |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 39 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2007 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.