Also listed on RF Magic, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends Oct 4, 2029 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Entropic Communications, LLC

Filed Jan 17, 2008 as application 12/015,773 · Granted Sep 20, 2011

Base term plus 702 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Oct 4, 2029

2007 2029

Clock starts
Nov 2, 2007

Term ends
Oct 4, 2029

Granted
Sep 20, 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

702

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.

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 702 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: Medium. 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 2, 2007, when application 11/934,486, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 17, 2008); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Nov 2, 2027	High confidence
Continuity chain	A parent in the chain could not be resolved	dated from this application's own claim	Medium confidence
Patent term adjustment	+702 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Oct 4, 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	Oct 4, 2029	Medium confidence

This family

Application 11/934,486	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 8,023,912	this patent Oct 2029	Oct 2029

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
Mar 14, 2008 Reel 20651, frame 908	Petrovic, Branislav; Doherty, Peter; Zeng, Yong	RF Magic, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 8, 2014 Reel 32629, frame 792	RF Magic, Inc.	Entropic Communications Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 18, 2015 Reel 35706, frame 267	Excalibur Acquisition Corporation; Entropic Communications, Inc.; Entropic Communications, Inc.	Entropic Communications, Inc.	Merger and Change of Name
May 19, 2015 Reel 35717, frame 628	Entropic Communications, Inc.; Excalibur Subsidiary, LLC; Entropic Communications, LLC	Entropic Communications, LLC	Merger and Change of Name
May 12, 2017 Reel 42453, frame 1	MaxLinear, Inc.; Entropic Communications, LLC (F/K/A Entropic Communications, Inc.); Exar Corporation	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Security Agreement
Jul 1, 2020 Reel 53115, frame 842	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	Succession of Agency (REEL 042453 / Frame 0001)
Mar 30, 2021 Reel 55776, frame 482	Entropic Communicatons LLC	MaxLinear Communications LLC	Change of Name
Mar 31, 2021 Reel 55779, frame 1	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	MaxLinear, Inc.; MaxLinear Communications LLC	Release of Security Interest
Mar 31, 2021 reel/frame not recorded	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	MaxLinear, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Mar 31, 2021 reel/frame not recorded	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	MaxLinear Communications LLC	Release of Security Interest
Apr 12, 2021 Reel 55899, frame 291	MaxLinear Communications LLC	Entropic Communications, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 23, 2021 Reel 56656, frame 204	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	MaxLinear, Inc.; Exar Corporation; MaxLinear Communications LLC	Release of Security Interest
Jun 23, 2021 reel/frame not recorded	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	MaxLinear, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Jun 23, 2021 reel/frame not recorded	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	Exar Corporation	Release of Security Interest
Jun 23, 2021 reel/frame not recorded	Mufg Union Bank, N.a.	MaxLinear Communications LLC	Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

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

Oct 2029

Term ends Oct 4, 2029. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 702 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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