Lapsed Feb 19, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 5, 2025
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Alsephina Innovations Inc.
Filed Jan 5, 2005 as application 11/029,881 · Granted Feb 19, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 315 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 19, 2020
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jan 5, 2005
Jan 5, 2005
No longer in force
Feb 19, 2020
Feb 19, 2020
Granted
Feb 19, 2008
Feb 19, 2008
Term would have run to
Nov 16, 2025
Nov 16, 2025
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
315
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
24
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 Nov 16, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 315 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 Jan 5, 2005, when this application, 11/029,881, was filed | Jan 5, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +315 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 16, 2025 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Feb 19, 2020 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 19, 2020 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,933,188 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2017 | Aug 2017 |
| US 7,094,669 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 9,318,378 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 7,445,874 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2020 | Nov 2020 |
| Application 10/990,180 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/992,447 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,332,422 | this patent Feb 2020 | Feb 2020 |
| US 7,645,687 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
8 of 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 2005 Reel 16158, frame 922 | Lu, Wei; Goh, Loh Nah Luona; Hsia, Liang Choo | Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 20, 2018 Reel 47614, frame 81 | Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. | GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Jul 2, 2019 Reel 49669, frame 775 | GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. | Alsephina Innovations Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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 315 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2008 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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