Also listed on Broadcom Broadband Access Ltd., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends May 15, 2031 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 29, 2029
Grace period ended Oct 28, 2026 · no payment on record as of the Nov 10, 2026 fee file · lapse expected
Filed Jul 25, 2011 as application 13/189,935 · Granted Oct 28, 2014
Base term plus 502 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2009
2031
Clock starts
Dec 29, 2009
Dec 29, 2009
Term ends
May 15, 2031
May 15, 2031
Granted
Oct 28, 2014
Oct 28, 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
502
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 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.
2
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 502 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low: the grace period for its third maintenance fee ended Oct 28, 2026 with no payment on record. 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 29, 2009, when application 12/648,885, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 25, 2011) | Dec 29, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +502 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 15, 2031 | 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 | No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"; the grace period ended with no payment on record in the fee file | grace period ended Oct 28, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 15, 2031 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,855,491 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,873,960 | this patent May 2031 | May 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2011 Reel 26645, frame 342 | Dvir, Amiad; Elmoalem, Eli | Broadlight, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 7, 2012 Reel 29256, frame 895 | Broadcom Broadband Acess Ltd. | Broadcom International Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 7, 2012 Reel 29256, frame 939 | Broadcom International Limited | Broadcom Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 7, 2012 Reel 29259, frame 975 | Broadlight Ltd. | Broadcom Broadband Access Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Feb 11, 2016 Reel 37806, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 1, 2017 Reel 41706, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2017 Reel 41712, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Broadcom Corporation | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Oct 4, 2018 Reel 47229, frame 408 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Merger |
| Oct 29, 2018 Reel 47349, frame 1 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Effective Date Previously Recorded on Reel 047229 Frame 0408. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the the Effective Date Is 09/05/2018. |
| Mar 22, 2019 Reel 51144, frame 648 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Patent Number 9,385,856 to 9,385,756 Previously Recorded at Reel: 47349 Frame: 001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 28
Grace period ended Oct 28, 2026 with no payment on record. The term ends early once USPTO posts the lapse
May 2031
Term ends May 15, 2031.
Note
The 502 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
24
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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