Term ends Mar 25, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 18, 2027
Filed Apr 18, 2007 as application 11/736,989 · Granted Apr 5, 2011
Base term plus 707 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2029
Clock starts
Apr 18, 2007
Apr 18, 2007
Term ends
Mar 25, 2029
Mar 25, 2029
Granted
Apr 5, 2011
Apr 5, 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
707
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 707 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 Apr 18, 2007, when this application, 11/736,989, was filed | Apr 18, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +707 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 25, 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 | Mar 25, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,920,603 | this patent Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| US 8,737,400 | Lapsed on the fee record 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2007 Reel 19542, frame 681 | Ross, Tim | Broadcom Advanced Compression Group, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 25, 2009 Reel 22299, frame 916 | Broadcom Advanced Compression Group, LLC | Broadcom Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2016 Reel 37806, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 1, 2017 Reel 41706, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2017 Reel 41712, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Broadcom Corporation | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Oct 4, 2018 Reel 47196, frame 687 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Merger |
| Oct 29, 2018 Reel 47630, frame 344 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Effective Date of Merger to 9/5/2018 Previously Recorded at Reel: 047196 Frame: 0687. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
| Mar 21, 2019 Reel 48883, frame 267 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Property Numbers Previously Recorded at Reel: 47630 Frame: 344. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2029
Term ends Mar 25, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 707 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
4
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
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