Lapsed Dec 16, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 5, 2025
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Jul 5, 2005 as application 11/175,430 · Granted Dec 16, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 554 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 16, 2020
2005
2027
Clock starts
Jul 5, 2005
Jul 5, 2005
No longer in force
Dec 16, 2020
Dec 16, 2020
Granted
Dec 16, 2008
Dec 16, 2008
Term would have run to
Jan 10, 2027
Jan 10, 2027
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
554
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.
6
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 Jan 10, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 554 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 Jul 5, 2005, when this application, 11/175,430, was filed | Jul 5, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +554 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 10, 2027 | 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 Dec 16, 2020 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 16, 2020 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,466,759 | this patent Dec 2020 | Dec 2020 |
| US 7,450,662 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2005/029302 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2005/029303 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,586,997 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2021 | Sep 2021 |
| US 7,477,698 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2006 Reel 17478, frame 632 | Shashidhar, Vummintala; Rajan, Balaji Sundar; Tujkovic, Djordje; Paulraj, Arogyaswami; Lindskog, Erik | Beceem Communications, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 13, 2010 Reel 25473, frame 591 | Beceem Communications, Inc. | Broadcom Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2016 Reel 37806, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 1, 2017 Reel 41706, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2017 Reel 41712, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Broadcom Corporation | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Oct 4, 2018 Reel 47195, frame 658 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Merger |
| Oct 29, 2018 Reel 47357, frame 302 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Effective Date of Merger Previously Recorded on Reel 047195 Frame 0658. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the the Effective Date Is 09/05/2018. |
| Mar 22, 2019 Reel 48674, frame 834 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Error in Recording the Merger Previously Recorded at Reel: 047357 Frame: 0302. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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Note
The 554 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2
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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