Also listed on Powerwave Technologies Sweden AB, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Sep 3, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 25, 2025
Held by Prose Technologies LLC
Filed Jul 6, 2009 as application 11/791,378 · Granted Mar 6, 2012
Base term plus 647 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Nov 25, 2005
Nov 25, 2005
Term ends
Sep 3, 2027
Sep 3, 2027
Granted
Mar 6, 2012
Mar 6, 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
647
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.
2
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 647 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 Nov 25, 2005, when application PCT/SE2005/001777, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 6, 2009) | Nov 25, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +647 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 3, 2027 | 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 | Sep 3, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,130,161 | this patent Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2007 Reel 19553, frame 898 | Arvidsson, Per-anders; Ekervik, Olov; Lindh, Torbjorn | Powerwave Technologies Sweden AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 3, 2009 Reel 23602, frame 724 | Liljevik, Tord | Powerwave Technologies Sweden AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 11, 2012 Reel 28939, frame 381 | Powerwave Technologies, Inc. | P-Wave Holdings, LLC | Security Agreement |
| Jan 7, 2014 Reel 31925, frame 237 | Powerwave Technologies Sweden AB | Powerwave Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 7, 2014 Reel 31925, frame 252 | Powerwave Technologies, Inc. | P-Wave Holdings, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 27, 2014 Reel 32364, frame 916 | P-Wave Holdings, LLC | Powerwave Technologies S.A.R.L. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 12, 2014 Reel 34216, frame 1 | Powerwave Technologies S.A.R.L. | Intel Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 21, 2023 Reel 64652, frame 327 | Intel Corporation | Prose Technologies LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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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
Sep 2027
Term ends Sep 3, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 647 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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