Also listed on NXP USA, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Nov 25, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 18, 2025
Held by Future Link Systems
Filed May 16, 2007 as application 11/719,532 · Granted Mar 29, 2011
Base term plus 372 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2026
Clock starts
Nov 18, 2005
Nov 18, 2005
Term ends
Nov 25, 2026
Nov 25, 2026
Granted
Mar 29, 2011
Mar 29, 2011
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
372
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 372 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 Nov 18, 2005, when application PCT/IB2005/053821, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 16, 2007) | Nov 18, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +372 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 25, 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 25, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,917,680 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2007 Reel 19719, frame 843 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | NXP B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 12, 2012 Reel 28362, frame 864 | Lockeer, Kevin | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 19, 2013 Reel 31334, frame 449 | NXP B. V. | Partners for Corporate Research International | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 6, 2014 Reel 32399, frame 965 | Partners for Corporate Research International | Future Link Systems | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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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
Nov 2026
Term ends Nov 25, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 372 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2011 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.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.