Term ends Apr 20, 2029 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.

Filed Jul 25, 2006 as application 11/492,305 · Granted Feb 14, 2012

Base term plus 1000 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Apr 20, 2029

2006 2029

Clock starts
Jul 25, 2006

Term ends
Apr 20, 2029

Granted
Feb 14, 2012

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

1,000

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 1000 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 Jul 25, 2006, when this application, 11/492,305, was filed	Jul 25, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+1000 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Apr 20, 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	Apr 20, 2029	High confidence

This family

US 8,115,282	this patent Apr 2029	Apr 2029
US 8,420,481	Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2025	Apr 2025
US 8,952,493	Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2019	Feb 2019

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
Oct 10, 2006 Reel 18368, frame 413	Mege, Sandra	Infineon Technologies AG; Altis Semiconductor	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 10, 2006 reel/frame not recorded	Mege, Sandra	Infineon Technologies AG	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 10, 2006 reel/frame not recorded	Mege, Sandra	Altis Semiconductor	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 6, 2009 Reel 23330, frame 771	Infineon Technologies AG	Qimonda AG	Contribution Agreement (Relevant Parts; English Translation)
Sep 8, 2010 Reel 24953, frame 554	Qimonda AG	Adesto Technology Corporation	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 8, 2010 Reel 24957, frame 569	Mege, Sandra	Infineon Technologies AG; Altis Semiconductor	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 8, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Mege, Sandra	Infineon Technologies AG	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 8, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Mege, Sandra	Altis Semiconductor	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 5, 2010 Reel 25317, frame 737	Mege, Sandra	Qimonda AG; Altis Semiconductor	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignees Erroneously Named as Infineon Technologies Ag and Altis Semiconductor Previously Recorded on Reel 018368 Frame 0413. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correct Assignees to Be Qimonda Ag and Altis Semiconductor.
Nov 5, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Mege, Sandra	Qimonda AG	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignees Erroneously Named as Infineon Technologies Ag and Altis Semiconductor Previously Recorded on Reel 018368 Frame 0413. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correct Assignees to Be Qimonda Ag and Altis Semiconductor.
Nov 5, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Mege, Sandra	Altis Semiconductor	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignees Erroneously Named as Infineon Technologies Ag and Altis Semiconductor Previously Recorded on Reel 018368 Frame 0413. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correct Assignees to Be Qimonda Ag and Altis Semiconductor.
Oct 8, 2012 Reel 29090, frame 922	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Opus Bank	Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2013 Reel 31371, frame 581	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Bridge Bank, National Association	Security Agreement
Oct 15, 2013 Reel 31414, frame 232	Opus Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
Oct 15, 2013 reel/frame not recorded	Opus Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation	Release of Security Interest
Oct 15, 2013 reel/frame not recorded	Opus Bank	Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 22, 2015 Reel 35754, frame 580	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Opus Bank	Security Interest
Oct 3, 2017 Reel 44219, frame 610	Western Alliance Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
Oct 3, 2017 reel/frame not recorded	Western Alliance Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation	Release of Security Interest
Oct 3, 2017 reel/frame not recorded	Western Alliance Bank	Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 8, 2018 Reel 46105, frame 731	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Obsidian Agency Services, Inc., as Collateral Agent	Security Interest
May 9, 2019 Reel 49125, frame 970	Opus Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 9, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	Opus Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation	Release of Security Interest
May 9, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	Opus Bank	Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
Sep 24, 2019 Reel 50480, frame 836	Obsidian Agency Services, Inc., as Collateral Agent	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
Sep 24, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	Obsidian Agency Services, Inc., as Collateral Agent	Adesto Technologies Corporation	Release of Security Interest
Sep 24, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	Obsidian Agency Services, Inc., as Collateral Agent	Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
Mar 20, 2023 Reel 63118, frame 352	Renesas Design US Inc. (Formerly Known as Dialog Semiconductor US Inc. as Successor-in-Interest to Adesto Technologies Corporation and Artemis Acquisition, LLC)	GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

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What's changing

Apr 2029

Term ends Apr 20, 2029. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 1000 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

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