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Device Having Multiple Graphics Subsystems and Reduced Power Consumption Mode, Software and Methods

US 7,730,336 In force
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Term ends Dec 5, 2027 · High confidence

Filed May 30, 2006 as application 11/421,005 · Granted Jun 1, 2010
Base term plus 554 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2006 2027
Clock starts
May 30, 2006
Term ends
Dec 5, 2027
Granted
Jun 1, 2010
base term patent term adjustment 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.
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.
6
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 554 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 May 30, 2006, when this application, 11/421,005, was filedMay 30, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+554 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 5, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 5, 2027High confidence

This family

US 7,730,336this patent
Dec 2027
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Application PCT/US2007/069969PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,555,099In force
Dec 2027
Dec 2027
Application 11/987,559Abandoned
not computed
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Application PCT/US2008/085160PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
5 of 6 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
Oct 27, 2006
Reel 18447, frame 813
Marinkovic, Sasa; Mummah, Phil; Tresidder, Michael; Saltchev, Roumen; Xie, George; Long, Jason; Chien, MingweiATI Technologies Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 12, 2011
Reel 26270, frame 27
ATI Technologies Inc.ATI Technologies ULCChange of Name

Sources

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