Lapsed Dec 18, 2016 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 31, 2026
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Intel Corporation
Filed Jul 31, 2006 as application 11/496,767 · Granted Dec 18, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 586 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 18, 2016
2006
2028
Clock starts
Jul 31, 2006
Jul 31, 2006
No longer in force
Dec 18, 2016
Dec 18, 2016
Granted
Dec 18, 2012
Dec 18, 2012
Term would have run to
Mar 8, 2028
Mar 8, 2028
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
586
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
10
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Mar 8, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 586 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jul 31, 2006, when this application, 11/496,767, was filed | Jul 31, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +586 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 8, 2028 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 18, 2016 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 18, 2016 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,742,458 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| US 7,945,233 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2019 | May 2019 |
| US 8,335,484 | this patent Dec 2016 | Dec 2016 |
| US 7,916,711 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2019 | Mar 2019 |
| US 8,015,368 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2019 | Sep 2019 |
| US 7,990,934 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2019 | Aug 2019 |
| US 8,675,532 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| Application 13/191,208 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2006 Reel 18124, frame 154 | Arad, Oren; Sharma, Sridhar | Siport, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 30, 2008 Reel 21192, frame 293 | Siport, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Jun 30, 2008 reel/frame not recorded | Siport, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Jun 30, 2008 reel/frame not recorded | Siport, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Aug 6, 2009 Reel 23080, frame 372 | Siport, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Dec 16, 2010 Reel 25504, frame 1 | Siport, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Dec 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Siport, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Dec 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Siport, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| May 25, 2011 Reel 26339, frame 154 | Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc. | Siport, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| May 25, 2011 Reel 26339, frame 117 | Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. | Siport, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 18, 2013 Reel 31619, frame 719 | Siport, Inc. | Intel Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 586 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
16
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.
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