Term ends Nov 20, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 25, 2026
Held by Smart Modular Technologies, Inc.
Filed Apr 29, 2010 as application 12/770,576 · Granted Feb 4, 2014
Base term plus 951 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2006
2026
Clock starts
Oct 25, 2006
Oct 25, 2006
Term ends
Nov 20, 2026
Nov 20, 2026
Granted
Feb 4, 2014
Feb 4, 2014
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
951
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 7,724,604, US 8,068,378.
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.
3
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 951 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Oct 25, 2006, when application 11/552,949, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 29, 2010) | Oct 25, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +951 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 2, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,724,604, US 8,068,378) | capped to Nov 20, 2026 | 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 | Nov 20, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,724,604 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 8,644,105 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,068,378 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
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 26, 2011 Reel 26818, frame 512 | Smart Modular Technologies, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Sep 22, 2014 Reel 33792, frame 908 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Barclays Bank PLC, as Successor Agent | Notice of Succession of Agency |
| Dec 23, 2020 Reel 54738, frame 855 | Smart Modular Technologies, Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as Agent | Security 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 |
| Feb 7, 2022 Reel 58913, frame 385 | Bank of America, N.A., as Agent | Smart Modular Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 7, 2022 Reel 58963, frame 725 | Barclays Bank PLC | Smart Modular Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest at Reel 033792 Frame 0908 |
| 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 |
| Oct 28, 2026 Reel 76544, frame 608 | Amidi, Mike H.; Kolli, Satyadev | Smart Modular Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2026
Term ends Nov 20, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 951 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 7,724,604, US 8,068,378.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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