Also listed on GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Collateral for a security interest recorded Nov 3, 2020 (Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.).

Term ends Nov 15, 2026 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Spansion LLC

Filed Oct 21, 2005 as application 11/254,769 · Granted Oct 7, 2008

Base term plus 390 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Nov 15, 2026

2005 2026

Clock starts
Oct 21, 2005

Term ends
Nov 15, 2026

Granted
Oct 7, 2008

base term patent term adjustment 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

390

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.

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 390 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Oct 21, 2005, when this application, 11/254,769, was filed	Oct 21, 2025	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+390 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Nov 15, 2026	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	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Nov 15, 2026	High confidence

This family

US 7,432,178	this patent Nov 2026	Nov 2026
Application PCT/US2006/039547	PCT application no patent term	no patent term

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
Oct 21, 2005 Reel 17127, frame 279	Hui, Angela T.	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 21, 2005 Reel 17127, frame 177	Yang, Jean; Sun, Yu; Ramsbey, Mark T.; Qian, Weidong	Spansion LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 18, 2009 Reel 23119, frame 83	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.	GlobalFoundries Inc.	Affirmation of Patent Assignment
Jun 4, 2010 Reel 24522, frame 338	Spansion LLC; Spansion Inc.; Spansion Technology Inc.; Spansion Technology LLC	Barclays Bank PLC	Security Agreement
Mar 13, 2015 reel/frame not recorded	Barclays Bank PLC	Spansion LLC	Release of Security Interest
Mar 13, 2015 reel/frame not recorded	Barclays Bank PLC	Spansion Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Mar 13, 2015 reel/frame not recorded	Barclays Bank PLC	Spansion Technology LLC	Release of Security Interest
Mar 13, 2015 Reel 35201, frame 159	Barclays Bank PLC	Spansion LLC; Spansion Inc.; Spansion Technology LLC	Release of Security Interest
Mar 21, 2015 Reel 35240, frame 429	Cypress Semiconductor Corporation; Spansion LLC	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Security Interest
Jun 22, 2018 Reel 46181, frame 465	GlobalFoundries Inc.	Spansion LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 28, 2019 Reel 50896, frame 366	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	Assignment and Assumption of Security Interest in Intellectual Property
Nov 3, 2020 Reel 58002, frame 470	Cypress Semiconductor Corporation; Spansion LLC	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the 8647899 Previously Recorded on Reel 035240 Frame 0429. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interst.
May 12, 2021 Reel 56987, frame 1	Wilmington Trust, National Association	GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Mar 16, 2022 Reel 59410, frame 438	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	Cypress Semiconductor Corporation; Spansion LLC	Release of Security Interest
Mar 16, 2022 reel/frame not recorded	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	Cypress Semiconductor Corporation	Release of Security Interest
Mar 16, 2022 reel/frame not recorded	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	Spansion LLC	Release of Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

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

Nov 2026

Term ends Nov 15, 2026. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 390 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patent cites 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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