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Low-Latency Start-Up for a Monolithic Clock Generator and Timing/Frequency Reference

US 7,307,486 Term ended
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Term ended Jun 26, 2025 · High confidence

Filed Sep 21, 2005 as application 11/233,414 · Granted Dec 11, 2007
Base term plus 97 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Jun 26, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Mar 21, 2005
Term ended
Jun 26, 2025
Granted
Dec 11, 2007
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
97
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.
33
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 97 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 21, 2005, when applications 11/084,962 and 11/085,372, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Sep 21, 2005)Mar 21, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+97 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 26, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 26, 2025High confidence

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US 7,227,423Term ended
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US 7,456,699Term ended
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US 7,248,124Term ended
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Application PCT/US2005/034016PCT application
no patent term
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Application PCT/US2005/033979PCT application
no patent term
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Application PCT/US2005/034020PCT application
no patent term
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US 7,307,486this patent
Jun 2025
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8 of 33 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Sep 21, 2005
Reel 17036, frame 986
Pernia, Scott Michael; McCorquodale, Michael ShannonMobius Microsystems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 21, 2005
Reel 17036, frame 131
Kubba, SundusMobius Microsystems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 2, 2010
Reel 24016, frame 414
Mobius Microsystems, Inc.Integrated Device Technology, Inc.Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment
Apr 5, 2017
Reel 42166, frame 431
Integrated Device Technology, Inc.; Gigpeak, Inc.; Magnum Semiconductor, Inc.; Endwave Corporation; Chipx, IncorporatedJPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentSecurity Agreement
Mar 29, 2019
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Integrated Device Technology, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 29, 2019
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Gigpeak, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 29, 2019
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Chipx, IncorporatedRelease of Security Interest
Mar 29, 2019
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Endwave CorporationRelease of Security Interest
Mar 29, 2019
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Magnum Semiconductor, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 29, 2019
Reel 48746, frame 1
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Integrated Device Technology, Inc.; Gigpeak, Inc.; Chipx, Incorporated; Endwave Corporation; Magnum Semiconductor, Inc.Release of Security Interest

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