Term ends Dec 19, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 29, 2029
Filed Jan 29, 2009 as application 12/322,216 · Granted Jul 10, 2012
Base term plus 689 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2009
2030
Clock starts
Jan 29, 2009
Jan 29, 2009
Term ends
Dec 19, 2030
Dec 19, 2030
Granted
Jul 10, 2012
Jul 10, 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
689
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.
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 689 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 Jan 29, 2009, when this application, 12/322,216, was filed | Jan 29, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +689 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 19, 2030 | 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 | Dec 19, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,219,142 | this patent Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 8,447,350 | In force Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| Application 13/862,098 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 2009 Reel 22250, frame 859 | Khairmode, Vijay; Padmanabhan, Murali | Beceem Communications Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 13, 2010 Reel 25473, frame 591 | Beceem Communications, Inc. | Broadcom Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2016 Reel 37806, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 1, 2017 Reel 41706, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2017 Reel 41712, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Broadcom Corporation | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Oct 4, 2018 Reel 47230, frame 133 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Merger |
| Oct 29, 2018 Reel 47630, frame 456 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Effective Date of Merger to 09/05/2018 Previously Recorded at Reel: 047230 Frame: 0133. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2030
Term ends Dec 19, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 689 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
25
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
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