Lapsed Apr 15, 2018 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 9, 2024
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Aug 9, 2004 as application 10/915,006 · Granted Apr 15, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1372 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 15, 2018
2004
2028
Clock starts
Aug 9, 2004
Aug 9, 2004
No longer in force
Apr 15, 2018
Apr 15, 2018
Granted
Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014
Term would have run to
May 12, 2028
May 12, 2028
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
1,372
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
72
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 May 12, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 1372 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Aug 9, 2004, when this application, 10/915,006, was filed | Aug 9, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1372 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 12, 2028 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Apr 15, 2018 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 15, 2018 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,457,838 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 7,302,600 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 8,699,055 | this patent Apr 2018 | Apr 2018 |
| US 7,275,204 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2004/038731 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,375,597 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 7,852,098 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2018 | Dec 2018 |
| US 7,292,114 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
8 of 72 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2005 Reel 15640, frame 823 | Bledsoe, J. Daren; Carlson, Gregory F.; McClelland, Todd A.; Mc Kinley, Patrick A. | Agilent Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 22, 2006 Reel 17206, frame 666 | Agilent Technologies, Inc. | Avago Technologies General IP Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 26, 2006 Reel 17683, frame 113 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Company Registration No. 200512430D) | Avago Technologies Imaging IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Company Registration No. 200512334M) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 18, 2008 Reel 21849, frame 47 | Avago Technologies Imaging IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Marvell International Technology Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 6, 2016 Reel 38632, frame 662 | Agilent Technologies, Inc. | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 017206 Frame: 0666. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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Note
The 1372 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
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later US patents cite this one
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