Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 30, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ends Dec 6, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 22, 2030
Held by Creeled, Inc.
Filed May 10, 2011 as application 13/104,558 · Granted Jan 7, 2014
Base term plus 14 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Nov 22, 2010
Nov 22, 2010
Term ends
Dec 6, 2030
Dec 6, 2030
Granted
Jan 7, 2014
Jan 7, 2014
base term
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
14
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.
49
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 14 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 Nov 22, 2010, when application 29/379,636, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 10, 2011) | Nov 22, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +14 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 6, 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 6, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US D650,760 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US D676,000 | In force no later than Feb 2027 | no later than Feb 2027 |
| US 8,564,000 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 8,624,271 | this patent Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 10,178,723 | In force Jul 2036 | Jul 2036 |
| US 10,098,197 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US D669,273 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,300,062 | In force Jul 2032 | Jul 2032 |
8 of 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2011 Reel 26792, frame 629 | Reiherzer, Jesse Colin; Hussell, Christopher P.; Andrews, Peter Scott; Emerson, David T. | Cree, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 31, 2021 Reel 55780, frame 121 | Cree, Inc. | Creeled, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 7, 2022 Reel 58983, frame 1 | Smart Modular Technologies, Inc.; Smart High Reliability Solutions, LLC; Smart Embedded Computing, Inc.; Creeled, Inc. | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
| Jun 25, 2025 Reel 71725, frame 207 | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Smart Modular Technologies, Inc.; Smart Embedded Computing, Inc.; Smart High Reliability Solutions LLC; Creeled, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at R/F 058983/0001 |
| Jun 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Smart Modular Technologies, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at R/F 058983/0001 |
| Jun 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Smart Embedded Computing, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at R/F 058983/0001 |
| Jun 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Smart High Reliability Solutions LLC | Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at R/F 058983/0001 |
| Jun 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Citizens Bank, N.a. | Creeled, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at R/F 058983/0001 |
| Jun 30, 2025 Reel 71755, frame 1 | Creeled, Inc.; Penguin Solutions Corporation (De); Smart Embedded Computing, Inc.; Smart High Reliability Solutions LLC; Smart Modular Technologies, Inc.; Penguin Computing, Inc. | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Patent Security Agreement |
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What's changing
Dec 2030
Term ends Dec 6, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 14 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
89
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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