Term ends Jul 22, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 20, 2026
Held by Stmicroelectronics SRL
Filed Jun 20, 2006 as application 11/471,439 · Granted Sep 21, 2010
Base term plus 1128 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2029
Clock starts
Jun 20, 2006
Jun 20, 2006
Term ends
Jul 22, 2029
Jul 22, 2029
Granted
Sep 21, 2010
Sep 21, 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
1,128
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.
8
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 1128 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jun 20, 2006, when this application, 11/471,439, was filed | Jun 20, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1128 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 22, 2029 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 22, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,802,172 | this patent Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2006/028256 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,351,529 | In force Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| US 8,432,987 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| US 9,231,794 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 9,014,253 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 9,025,689 | Term ended no later than Jul 2026 | no later than Jul 2026 |
7 of 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2006 Reel 18032, frame 185 | Vila Casado, Andres I.; Weng, Wen-yen; Wesel, Richard D. | The Regents of the University of California | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 20, 2006 Reel 18034, frame 238 | Moschini, Nicola; Siti, Massimiliano; Valle, Stefano; Yeo, Engling | Stmicroelectronics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 4, 2010 Reel 24032, frame 196 | Stmicroelectronics, Inc. | Stmicroelectronics SRL | Assignment of Equal and Undivided One-Half Interest from Stmicroelectronics, Inc. to Stmicroelectronics SRL |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2029
Term ends Jul 22, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1128 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
221
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.
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