Term ended Nov 14, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 15, 2026
Held by Micron Technology, Inc.
Filed May 15, 2006 as application 11/433,562 · Granted Feb 16, 2010
Base term plus 183 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 14, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
May 15, 2006
May 15, 2006
Term ended
Nov 14, 2026
Nov 14, 2026
Granted
Feb 16, 2010
Feb 16, 2010
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
183
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.
3
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 183 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 May 15, 2006, when this application, 11/433,562, was filed | May 15, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +183 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 14, 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 14, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,663,925 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,974,129 | Term ended no later than May 2026 | no later than May 2026 |
| US 8,179,726 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2006 Reel 17896, frame 188 | Yu, Erwin E.; Abedifard, Ebrahim; Jaffin, Frederick T.; Chandrasekhar, Uday | Micron Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 12, 2016 Reel 38669, frame 1 | Micron Technology, Inc. | U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jun 2, 2016 Reel 38954, frame 1 | Micron Technology, Inc. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Jun 8, 2017 Reel 43079, frame 1 | Micron Technology, Inc. | U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Replace Erroneously Filed Patent #7358718 with the Correct Patent #7358178 Previously Recorded on Reel 038669 Frame 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest. |
| Jul 13, 2018 Reel 47540, frame 1 | Micron Technology, Inc.; Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Aug 23, 2018 Reel 47243, frame 1 | U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent | Micron Technology, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 9, 2019 Reel 50937, frame 1 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent | Micron Technology, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 12, 2019 Reel 51028, frame 1 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Micron Technology, Inc.; Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 12, 2019 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Micron Technology, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 12, 2019 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc. | 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
Note
The 183 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2010 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.