Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 3, 2022 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ended Sep 13, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 17, 2023
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jul 27, 2026.
Held by McAfee, LLC
Filed Nov 15, 2010 as application 12/946,344 · Granted Jun 24, 2014
Base term plus 636 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 13, 2025
2003
2026
Clock starts
Dec 17, 2003
Dec 17, 2003
Term ended
Sep 13, 2025
Sep 13, 2025
Granted
Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014
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
636
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
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 636 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Dec 17, 2003, when application 10/739,230, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 15, 2010) | Dec 17, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +636 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 13, 2025 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Jul 27, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 13, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,840,968 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 8,561,082 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 8,549,546 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,762,928 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 2010 Reel 25362, frame 646 | Solidcore Systems, Inc. | McAfee, Inc. | Merger |
| Dec 22, 2010 Reel 25604, frame 795 | Sharma, Rosen; Shah, Bakul; Sebes, E. John | Solidcore Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 24, 2017 Reel 43665, frame 918 | McAfee, Inc. | McAfee, LLC | Change of Name and Entity Conversion |
| Jan 12, 2018 Reel 45055, frame 786 | McAfee, LLC | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
| Jan 12, 2018 Reel 45056, frame 676 | McAfee, LLC | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Oct 22, 2020 Reel 54206, frame 593 | McAfee, LLC | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045056 Frame 0676. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest. |
| Oct 22, 2020 Reel 55854, frame 47 | McAfee, LLC | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045055 Frame 786. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest. |
| Oct 26, 2020 Reel 54238, frame 1 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | McAfee, LLC | Release of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045055/0786 |
| Mar 2, 2022 Reel 59354, frame 213 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent | McAfee, LLC | Release of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045056/0676 |
| Mar 3, 2022 Reel 59354, frame 335 | McAfee, LLC | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jun 23, 2022 Reel 60792, frame 307 | McAfee, LLC | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Patent Titles and Remove Duplicates in the Schedule Previously Recorded at Reel: 059354 Frame: 0335. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
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The 636 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
60
later US patents cite this one
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