Lapsed Aug 2, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 23, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Intel Corporation
Filed Jun 15, 2010 as application 12/815,967 · Granted Aug 2, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 2, 2019
2006
2026
Clock starts
Mar 23, 2006
Mar 23, 2006
No longer in force
Aug 2, 2019
Aug 2, 2019
Granted
Aug 2, 2011
Aug 2, 2011
Term would have run to
Mar 23, 2026
Mar 23, 2026
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
Its term would have run to Mar 23, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Mar 23, 2006, when application 11/389,277, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 15, 2010) | Mar 23, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 2, 2019 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 2, 2019 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,742,458 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| US 7,945,233 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2019 | May 2019 |
| US 8,335,484 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2016 | Dec 2016 |
| US 7,916,711 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2019 | Mar 2019 |
| US 8,015,368 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2019 | Sep 2019 |
| US 7,990,934 | this patent Aug 2019 | Aug 2019 |
| US 8,675,532 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| Application 13/191,208 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 10 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 25, 2010 Reel 24887, frame 885 | Sharma, Sridhar G.; Arad, Oren | Siport, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 16, 2010 Reel 25504, frame 1 | Siport, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Dec 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Siport, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Dec 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Siport, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| May 25, 2011 Reel 26339, frame 154 | Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc. | Siport, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 18, 2013 Reel 31619, frame 719 | Siport, Inc. | Intel Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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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.
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