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Smartcard Performance Enhancement Circuits and Systems

US 8,451,122 In force
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Term ends Mar 26, 2029 · High confidence

Held by Icashe, Inc.
Filed Mar 1, 2011 as application 13/038,341 · Granted May 28, 2013
Base term plus 230 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2029
Clock starts
Aug 8, 2008
Term ends
Mar 26, 2029
Granted
May 28, 2013
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
230
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.
19
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 230 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 8, 2008, when application 12/188,346, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 1, 2011)Aug 8, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+230 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 26, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 26, 2029High confidence

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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
May 27, 2011
Reel 26353, frame 151
Narendra, Siva G.; Chakraborty, Saurav; Tadepalli, PrabhakarTyfone, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 15, 2015
Reel 35685, frame 760
Tyfone, Inc.RPX CorporationSecurity Interest
Aug 4, 2020
Reel 53396, frame 443
RPX CorporationTyfone, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Oct 1, 2020
Reel 53965, frame 413
Tyfone, Inc.Icashe, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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