Also listed on NXP USA, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ended Nov 5, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 28, 2026
Held by Ascale Technologies LLC
Filed Jul 28, 2006 as application 11/460,745 · Granted Dec 30, 2008
Base term plus 100 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 5, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jul 28, 2006
Jul 28, 2006
Term ended
Nov 5, 2026
Nov 5, 2026
Granted
Dec 30, 2008
Dec 30, 2008
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
100
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.
2
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 100 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 28, 2006, when this application, 11/460,745, was filed | Jul 28, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +100 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 5, 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 5, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,471,582 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2007/068100 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2006 Reel 18019, frame 260 | Choy, Jon S.; Akhter, Tahmina | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 2, 2007 Reel 18855, frame 129 | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.; Freescale Acquisition Corporation; Freescale Acquisition Holdings Corp.; Freescale Holdings (Bermuda) III, Ltd. | Citibank, N.A. as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Mar 12, 2009 Reel 22380, frame 409 | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | Citibank, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| May 13, 2010 Reel 24397, frame 1 | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | Citibank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Jun 18, 2013 Reel 30633, frame 424 | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | Citibank, N.A., as Notes Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Nov 6, 2013 Reel 31591, frame 266 | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | Citibank, N.A., as Notes Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Dec 21, 2015 Reel 37356, frame 553 | Citibank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | Patent Release |
| Jan 12, 2016 Reel 37486, frame 517 | Citibank, N.a. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Assignment and Assumption of Security Interest in Patents |
| Jan 13, 2016 Reel 37518, frame 292 | Citibank, N.a. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Assignment and Assumption of Security Interest in Patents |
| Jun 16, 2016 Reel 39138, frame 1 | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Supplement to the Security Agreement |
| Sep 21, 2016 Reel 40925, frame 1 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | NXP, B.V., F/K/A Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 7, 2016 Reel 40928, frame 1 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | NXP B.V. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 8, 2016 Reel 40632, frame 1 | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | NXP USA, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Feb 1, 2017 Reel 41703, frame 536 | Citibank, N.a. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patents 8108266 and 8062324 and Replace Them with 6108266 and 8060324 Previously Recorded on Reel 037518 Frame 0292. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment and Assumption of Security Interest in Patents. |
| Sep 21, 2017 Reel 44209, frame 47 | Freescale Semiconductor Inc. | NXP USA, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Nature of Conveyance Previously Recorded at Reel: 040632 Frame: 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger and Change of Name. |
| Feb 20, 2019 Reel 48734, frame 1 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Shenzhen Xinguodu Technology Co., Ltd. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the to Correct the Application No. from 13,883,290 to 13,833,290 Previously Recorded on Reel 041703 Frame 0536. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the the Assignment and Assumption of Security Interest in Patents.. |
| Sep 10, 2019 Reel 50744, frame 97 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | NXP B.V. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 10, 2019 Reel 53547, frame 421 | Citibank, N.a. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Application 11759915 and Replace It with Application 11759935 Previously Recorded on Reel 037486 Frame 0517. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment and Assumption of Security Interest in Patents. |
| Jan 17, 2020 Reel 52915, frame 1 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | NXP B.V. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Application 11759915 and Replace It with Application 11759935 Previously Recorded on Reel 040928 Frame 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interest. |
| Feb 17, 2020 Reel 52917, frame 1 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | NXP, B.V. F/K/A Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Application 11759915 and Replace It with Application 11759935 Previously Recorded on Reel 040925 Frame 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interest. |
| Jan 28, 2025 Reel 70026, frame 838 | NXP USA, Inc. | Ascale Technologies LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 100 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
11
later US patents cite this one
That is above 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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