Lapsed Aug 11, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 16, 2030
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Nov 8, 2012 as application 13/671,628 · Granted Aug 11, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 152 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 11, 2019
2010
2030
Clock starts
Mar 16, 2010
Mar 16, 2010
No longer in force
Aug 11, 2019
Aug 11, 2019
Granted
Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015
Term would have run to
Aug 15, 2030
Aug 15, 2030
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
152
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,335,235, to Aug 15, 2030. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
3
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 Aug 15, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 152 days of term 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. 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 Mar 16, 2010, when application 12/725,219, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 8, 2012) | Mar 16, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +152 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 15, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,335,235) | resolves to Aug 15, 2030, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 11, 2019 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 11, 2019 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,335,235 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2010/027623 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,106,438 | this patent Aug 2019 | Aug 2019 |
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 12, 2015 Reel 35828, frame 814 | Davis, Lawrence D.; Kramer, Glen; Wojtowicz, Jaroslaw; Hirth, Ryan E.; Boyd, Edward W. | Teknovus, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 12, 2015 Reel 35896, frame 825 | 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. |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 152 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,335,235, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.