Term ends Nov 25, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 25, 2025
Held by Qualcomm Incorporated
Filed Jun 5, 2009 as application 12/479,703 · Granted May 29, 2012
Base term plus 419 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2005
2026
Clock starts
Oct 25, 2005
Oct 25, 2005
Term ends
Nov 25, 2026
Nov 25, 2026
Granted
May 29, 2012
May 29, 2012
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
419
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 7,546,026.
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.
3
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 419 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 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 Oct 25, 2005, when application 11/258,975, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 5, 2009) | Oct 25, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +419 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 18, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,546,026) | capped to Nov 25, 2026 | 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 | Nov 25, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,546,026 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2017 | Jun 2017 |
| Application PCT/US2006/060056 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,189,057 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
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 12, 2009 Reel 22821, frame 688 | Pertsel, Shimon; Pozniansky, Eli; Meitav, Ohad | Zoran Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 18, 2012 Reel 27550, frame 695 | Zoran Corporation | CSR Technology Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 11, 2014 Reel 33134, frame 7 | CSR Technology Inc. | Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2015 Reel 36642, frame 395 | Zoran Corporation | CSR Technology Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 13, 2017 Reel 41694, frame 336 | Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. | Qualcomm Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2026
Term ends Nov 25, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 419 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 7,546,026.
Citations
21
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
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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