Also listed on Skyhook Holding, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ended no later than Oct 26, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 28, 2025
Held by Qualcomm Incorporated
Filed Dec 4, 2007 as application 11/950,178 · Granted Aug 3, 2010
Base term plus 363 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Ended no later than Oct 26, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Oct 28, 2005
Oct 28, 2005
Ended no later than
Oct 26, 2026
Oct 26, 2026
Granted
Aug 3, 2010
Aug 3, 2010
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
363
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
15
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 363 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 Oct 28, 2005, when application 11/261,988, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 4, 2007) | Oct 28, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +363 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 26, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium 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 | no later than Oct 26, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,305,245 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 8,244,272 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 7,493,127 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 7,474,897 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 7,818,017 | Term ended no later than Oct 2026 | no later than Oct 2026 |
| US 7,769,396 | this patent no later than Oct 2026 | no later than Oct 2026 |
| US 8,140,094 | In force no later than Jan 2027 | no later than Jan 2027 |
| Application 12/906,338 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 2009 Reel 23595, frame 860 | Alizadeh-shabdiz, Farshid; Jones, Russel K.; Morgan, Edward James; Shean, Michael G. | Skyhook Wireless, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 15, 2009 Reel 23654, frame 710 | Alizadeh-shabdiz, Farshid; Jones, Russel K.; Morgan, Edward James; Shean, Michael G. | Skhyook Wireless, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Applicaton Number Previously Recorded on Reel 023595 Frame 0860. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the from 11/940178 - to 11/950,178. |
| Jan 8, 2025 Reel 69853, frame 620 | Skyhook Wireless, Inc. | Qualcomm Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 363 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Oct 26, 2026. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
293
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.