Term ends Aug 16, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 21, 2024
Filed Aug 21, 2004 as application 10/923,123 · Granted Apr 19, 2016
Base term plus 1821 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2029
Clock starts
Aug 21, 2004
Aug 21, 2004
Term ends
Aug 16, 2029
Aug 16, 2029
Granted
Apr 19, 2016
Apr 19, 2016
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,821
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.
24
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 1821 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Aug 21, 2004, when this application, 10/923,123, was filed | Aug 21, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1821 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 16, 2029 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 16, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,933,188 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2017 | Aug 2017 |
| US 7,094,669 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 9,318,378 | this patent Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 7,445,874 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2020 | Nov 2020 |
| Application 10/990,180 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/992,447 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,332,422 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2020 | Feb 2020 |
| US 7,645,687 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
8 of 24 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 15, 2005 Reel 16080, frame 336 | Lim, Yeow Kheng; Lee, Tae Jong; Hsia, Liang Choo; Pey, Kin Leong; See, Alex; Vigar, David | Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 15, 2016 Reel 38211, frame 402 | Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. | Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Mar 15, 2016 Reel 38211, frame 412 | Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. | GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Nov 27, 2018 Reel 47660, frame 203 | GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Security Agreement |
| Nov 19, 2020 Reel 54481, frame 673 | Wilmington Trust, National Association | GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2029
Term ends Aug 16, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1821 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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