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US 7,449,356 Term ended
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Term ended Apr 25, 2025 · High confidence

Filed Dec 19, 2006 as application 11/613,003 · Granted Nov 11, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Apr 25, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Apr 25, 2005
Term ended
Apr 25, 2025
Granted
Nov 11, 2008
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
10
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Apr 25, 2005, when application 11/113,925, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 19, 2006)Apr 25, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh 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 orderApr 25, 2025High confidence

This family

US 7,825,484In force
Jun 2027
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Application PCT/US2006/014982PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 7,449,356this patent
Apr 2025
Apr 2025
Application PCT/US2006/048788PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 7,885,423In force
Mar 2028
Mar 2028
US 8,309,386Term ended
Dec 2025
Dec 2025
US 8,129,803Term ended
May 2025
May 2025
US 8,422,703Term ended
no later than Oct 2025
no later than Oct 2025
8 of 10 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
Dec 21, 2006
Reel 18665, frame 484
Weigold, Jason W.Analog Devices, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 25, 2013
Reel 31721, frame 683
Analog Devices, Inc.Invensense, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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