Term ends Nov 17, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 31, 2031
Held by GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
Filed Mar 31, 2011 as application 13/077,765 · Granted May 17, 2016
Base term plus 1327 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2034
Clock starts
Mar 31, 2011
Mar 31, 2011
Term ends
Nov 17, 2034
Nov 17, 2034
Granted
May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016
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
1,327
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.
15
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 1327 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 Mar 31, 2011, when this application, 13/077,765, was filed | Mar 31, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1327 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 17, 2034 | 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 | Nov 17, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,576,381 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 7,826,067 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 8,619,126 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| US 7,894,078 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| Application 12/150,239 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,916,309 | In force Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2008/012947 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,514,268 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
8 of 15 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 6, 2011 Reel 26086, frame 247 | Budd, Russell A.; Libsch, Frank R. | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 3, 2015 Reel 36550, frame 1 | International Business Machines Corporation | GlobalFoundries U.S. 2 LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 5, 2015 Reel 36779, frame 1 | GlobalFoundries U.S. 2 LLC; GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. | GlobalFoundries Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 29, 2018 Reel 49490, frame 1 | GlobalFoundries Inc. | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Security Agreement |
| Nov 2, 2020 Reel 54633, frame 1 | GlobalFoundries Inc. | GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 20, 2020 Reel 54636, frame 1 | Wilmington Trust, National Association | GlobalFoundries Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| May 12, 2021 Reel 56987, frame 1 | Wilmington Trust, National Association | GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2034
Term ends Nov 17, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1327 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
37
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.