Term ends Mar 18, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 15, 2025
Held by Adeia Media Holdings Inc.
Filed Jun 2, 2006 as application 11/445,616 · Granted Mar 6, 2012
Base term plus 733 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Mar 15, 2005
Mar 15, 2005
Term ends
Mar 18, 2027
Mar 18, 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
733
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.
13
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 733 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 Mar 15, 2005, when applications 11/080,389 and 11/081,009, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Jun 2, 2006) | Mar 15, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +733 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 18, 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 | Mar 18, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/080,389 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,396,212 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 8,132,204 | this patent Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 9,087,126 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2007/013124 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2007/017433 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,904,605 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 10,440,437 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
8 of 13 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 2, 2006 Reel 18053, frame 907 | Haberman, Seth | Visible World Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 11, 2018 Reel 47216, frame 534 | Visible World Inc. | Visible World, LLC | Change of Name |
| Dec 3, 2020 Reel 54588, frame 461 | Visible World, LLC | TiVo Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 3, 2023 Reel 63529, frame 272 | Adeia Guides Inc.; Adeia Imaging LLC; Adeia Media Holdings LLC; Adeia Media Solutions Inc.; Adeia Semiconductor Advanced Technologies Inc.; Adeia Semiconductor Bonding Technologies Inc.; Adeia Semiconductor Inc.; Adeia Semiconductor Solutions LLC; Adeia Semiconductor Technologies LLC; Adeia Solutions LLC | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Oct 1, 2024 Reel 69083, frame 230 | TiVo Corporation | TiVo LLC | Change of Name |
| Oct 1, 2024 Reel 69083, frame 311 | TiVo LLC | Adeia Media Holdings LLC | Change of Name |
| Mar 31, 2026 Reel 75303, frame 717 | Adeia Media Holdings LLC | Adeia Media Holdings Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2027
Term ends Mar 18, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 733 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
63
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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