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Phase Adjustment Apparatus and Method for a Memory Device Signaling System

US 7,965,567 Term ended
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Term ended Jan 25, 2024 · High confidence

Filed Sep 14, 2007 as application 11/855,993 · Granted Jun 21, 2011
Base term plus 460 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Jan 25, 2024
2002 2026
Clock starts
Oct 22, 2002
Term ended
Jan 25, 2024
Granted
Jun 21, 2011
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
460
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.
10
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 460 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Oct 22, 2002, when application 10/278,708, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 14, 2007)Oct 22, 2022High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+460 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 25, 2024High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 25, 2024High confidence

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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
Jun 25, 2015
Reel 35908, frame 362
Hampel, Craig E.; Perego, Richard E.; Sidiropoulos, Stefanos S.; Tsern, Ely K.; Ware, Frederick A.Rambus Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 2, 2021
Reel 58298, frame 836
Rambus Inc.Highlands LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 10, 2021
Reel 58956, frame 139
Highlands LLCRampart Asset Management, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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