Term ended Dec 1, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 1, 2025
Held by Synopsys, Inc.
Filed Mar 25, 2013 as application 13/850,133 · Granted Nov 4, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Dec 1, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Dec 1, 2005
Dec 1, 2005
Term ended
Dec 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2025
Granted
Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014
base term
after the term ends
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.
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.
11
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. Confidence: High. 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 Dec 1, 2005, when application 11/291,294, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 25, 2013) | Dec 1, 2025 | 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 | 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 |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 1, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,407,634 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,615,728 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| US 8,560,995 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,413,096 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 8,762,924 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 8,713,510 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| US 8,881,073 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,661,398 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2013 Reel 30163, frame 839 | Moroz, Victor; Pramanik, Dipankar | Synopsys, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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