Term ended no later than Oct 28, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 25, 2025
Held by Invensense, Inc.
Filed Dec 30, 2010 as application 12/981,949 · Granted Apr 16, 2013
Base term plus 186 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Ended no later than Oct 28, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Apr 25, 2005
Apr 25, 2005
Ended no later than
Oct 28, 2025
Oct 28, 2025
Granted
Apr 16, 2013
Apr 16, 2013
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
186
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
10
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 186 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 Apr 25, 2005, when application 11/113,925, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 30, 2010) | Apr 25, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +186 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 28, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | no later than Oct 28, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,825,484 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2006/014982 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,449,356 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2006/048788 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,885,423 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 8,309,386 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,129,803 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 8,422,703 | this patent no later than Oct 2025 | no later than Oct 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2010 Reel 25558, frame 920 | Weigold, Jason W. | Analog Devices, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 25, 2013 Reel 31721, frame 683 | Analog Devices, Inc. | Invensense, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
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Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.
What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 186 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Oct 28, 2025. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2013 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.