Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 30, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ended Aug 31, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 10, 2025
Held by Creeled, Inc.
Filed May 2, 2007 as application 11/743,324 · Granted Feb 28, 2012
USPTO first gave this application the number US 8,076,835 and withdrew it before it issued. That number now leads here.
Base term plus 589 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Aug 31, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jan 10, 2005
Jan 10, 2005
Term ended
Aug 31, 2025
Aug 31, 2025
Granted
Feb 28, 2012
Feb 28, 2012
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
589
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,564,180.
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.
197
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 589 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jan 10, 2005, when application 11/032,363, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 2, 2007) | Jan 10, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +589 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 22, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,564,180) | capped to Aug 31, 2025 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 31, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,564,180 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2005/039403 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,125,137 | this patent Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 9,070,850 | In force Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| US 7,821,023 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 9,793,247 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2009/001628 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2009/002155 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 197 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2007 Reel 19428, frame 548 | Medendorp, Nicholas W., JR.; McClear, Mark; Keller, Bernd P.; Brandes, Georges; Letoquin, Ronan P. | Cree, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 29, 2021 Reel 57017, frame 311 | Cree, Inc. | Creeled, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 7, 2022 Reel 58983, frame 1 | Smart Modular Technologies, Inc.; Smart High Reliability Solutions, LLC; Smart Embedded Computing, Inc.; Creeled, Inc. | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
| Jun 25, 2025 Reel 71725, frame 207 | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Smart Modular Technologies, Inc.; Smart Embedded Computing, Inc.; Smart High Reliability Solutions LLC; Creeled, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at R/F 058983/0001 |
| Jun 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Smart Modular Technologies, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at R/F 058983/0001 |
| Jun 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Smart Embedded Computing, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at R/F 058983/0001 |
| Jun 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Smart High Reliability Solutions LLC | Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at R/F 058983/0001 |
| Jun 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Creeled, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at R/F 058983/0001 |
| Jun 30, 2025 Reel 71755, frame 1 | Creeled, Inc.; Penguin Solutions Corporation (De); Smart Embedded Computing, Inc.; Smart High Reliability Solutions LLC; Smart Modular Technologies, Inc.; Penguin Computing, Inc. | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Patent Security Agreement |
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Note
The 589 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,564,180.
Citations
435
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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