Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 1, 2020 (Bank of America, N.A.).
Term ended Jan 14, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 31, 2023
Held by Invensas Corporation
Filed Feb 25, 2005 as application 10/525,804 · Granted Nov 18, 2008
Base term plus 167 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jan 14, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Jul 31, 2003
Jul 31, 2003
Term ended
Jan 14, 2024
Jan 14, 2024
Granted
Nov 18, 2008
Nov 18, 2008
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
167
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.
222
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 167 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jul 31, 2003, when application PCT/IB2003/003709, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 25, 2005) | Jul 31, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +167 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 14, 2024 | 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 14, 2024 | 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 | Lapsed on the fee record 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 2005 Reel 16819, frame 686 | Van Lammeren, Johannes; Sengers, Arnoldus | 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 |
| 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. |
| Dec 2, 2016 Reel 40797, frame 1 | Invensas Corporation; Tessera, Inc.; Tessera Advanced Technologies, Inc.; Ziptronix, Inc.; DigitalOptics Corporation; DigitalOptics Corporation Mems; DTS, LLC; DTS, Inc.; Phorus, Inc.; Ibiquity Digital Corporation | Royal Bank of Canada, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jun 1, 2020 Reel 53468, frame 1 | Rovi Solutions Corporation; Rovi Technologies Corporation; Rovi Guides, Inc.; TiVo Solutions Inc.; Veveo, Inc.; Invensas Corporation; Invensas Bonding Technologies, Inc.; Tessera, Inc.; Tessera Advanced Technologies, Inc.; DTS, Inc.; Phorus, Inc.; Ibiquity Digital Corporation | Bank Of America, N.a. | Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2020 Reel 52920, frame 1 | Royal Bank of Canada | Tessera, Inc.; Invensas Bonding Technologies, Inc. (F/K/A Ziptronix, Inc.); FotoNation Corporation (F/K/A DigitalOptics Corporation and F/K/A DigitalOptics Corporation Mems); Invensas Corporation; Tessera Advanced Technologies, Inc.; DTS, Inc.; DTS LLC; Phorus, Inc.; Ibiquity Digital Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | Tessera, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | Invensas Bonding Technologies, Inc. (F/K/A Ziptronix, Inc.) | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | FotoNation Corporation (F/K/A DigitalOptics Corporation and F/K/A DigitalOptics Corporation Mems) | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | Invensas Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | Tessera Advanced Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | DTS, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | DTS LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | Phorus, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | Ibiquity Digital Corporation | Release of Security 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 167 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 2008 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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