Also listed on Broadcom Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 14, 2029 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 14, 2029
Grace period ended Nov 4, 2026 · no payment on record as of the Nov 10, 2026 fee file · lapse expected
Filed May 13, 2013 as application 13/893,089 · Granted Nov 4, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Oct 14, 2009
Oct 14, 2009
Term ends
Oct 14, 2029
Oct 14, 2029
Granted
Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014
base term
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,442,398, to Oct 14, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low: the grace period for its third maintenance fee ended Nov 4, 2026 with no payment on record. from the record
How we calculated this date
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 14, 2009, when application 12/579,209, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 13, 2013) | Oct 14, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,442,398) | resolves to Oct 14, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 Nov 4, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 14, 2029 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,442,398 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2009/060899 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,879,905 | this patent Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2013 Reel 30567, frame 371 | Li, Weidong Rick; Wojtowicz, Jaroslaw | Teknovus, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 7, 2013 Reel 30567, frame 434 | Teknovus, Inc. | Broadcom Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| 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. |
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What's changing
Nov 4
Grace period ended Nov 4, 2026 with no payment on record. The term ends early once USPTO posts the lapse
Oct 2029
Term ends Oct 14, 2029.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,442,398, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is above 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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