Lapsed Dec 31, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 6, 2026
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by NXP USA, Inc.
Filed Oct 5, 2010 as application 12/898,591 · Granted Dec 31, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 414 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Dec 31, 2025
2006
2027
Clock starts
Jun 6, 2006
Jun 6, 2006
No longer in force
Dec 31, 2025
Dec 31, 2025
Granted
Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013
Term would have run to
Jul 5, 2027
Jul 5, 2027
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
414
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 7,830,800, US 8,102,916.
2 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.
5
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 Jul 5, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 414 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jun 6, 2006, when application 11/448,447, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 5, 2010) | Jun 6, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +414 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 25, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,830,800, US 8,102,916) | capped to Jul 5, 2027 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 31, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 31, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,102,916 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| US 8,582,650 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Application 11/549,579 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,830,800 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 8,619,570 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
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 15, 2015 Reel 34766, frame 476 | Zenverge LLC | Freescale Semiconductor Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 27, 2015 Reel 34817, frame 375 | Zenverge, Inc. | Zenverge, LLC | Change of Name |
| Jun 16, 2016 Reel 39138, frame 1 | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Supplement to the Security Agreement |
| Nov 8, 2016 Reel 40652, frame 180 | Freescale Semiconductor Inc. | NXP USA, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jan 12, 2017 Reel 41354, frame 148 | Freescale Semiconductor Inc. | NXP USA, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Nature of Conveyance Listed Change of Name Should Be Merger and Change Previously Recorded at Reel: 040652 Frame: 0180. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger and Change of Name. |
| Sep 10, 2019 Reel 50744, frame 97 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | NXP B.V. | Release of Security Interest |
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Note
The 414 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 7,830,800, US 8,102,916.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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