Term ended Aug 31, 2025 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 31, 2025
Held by Speednic LLC
Filed Sep 25, 2009 as application 12/567,581 · Granted Mar 20, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Aug 31, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Aug 31, 2005
Aug 31, 2005
Term ended
Aug 31, 2025
Aug 31, 2025
Granted
Mar 20, 2012
Mar 20, 2012
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,616,563, to Aug 31, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
11
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Low. 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 Aug 31, 2005, when application 11/217,661, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 25, 2009); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 31, 2025 | 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 | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,616,563) | resolves to Aug 31, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 11217661, 11217661 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 31, 2025 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,724,658 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| US 7,715,436 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 7,660,264 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| US 7,660,306 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 7,616,563 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| US 8,139,482 | this patent Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 8,213,427 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 7,924,840 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
8 of 11 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 9, 2013 Reel 30389, frame 982 | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | East West Bank | Security Agreement |
| Oct 21, 2014 Reel 33989, frame 930 | East West Bank | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 21, 2014 Reel 33990, frame 451 | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Jul 15, 2016 Reel 39360, frame 596 | East West Bank | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 29, 2016 Reel 39296, frame 550 | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | Novirian Capital | Security Interest |
| Apr 25, 2017 Reel 42142, frame 232 | Novirian Capital | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 14, 2019 Reel 50050, frame 396 | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank, An Arizona Corporation | Security Interest |
| Aug 15, 2019 Reel 50112, frame 234 | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank, An Arizona Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the First Page of the Intellectual Property Security Agreement Has an Incorrect Date That Needs to Be Corrected Previously Recorded on Reel 050050 Frame 0396. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest. |
| Dec 18, 2025 Reel 73264, frame 525 | Western Alliance Bank, An Arizona Corporation | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 26, 2025 Reel 74070, frame 784 | CSNK Working Capital Finance Corp. | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 13, 2026 Reel 74633, frame 824 | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | Speednic LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 5, 2026 Reel 75561, frame 1 | Chelsio Communications, Inc. | Speednic LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,616,563, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
10
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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