Lapsed May 31, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 28, 2030
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Intel Corporation
Filed Jun 14, 2013 as application 13/918,147 · Granted May 31, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 388 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed May 31, 2020
2010
2030
Clock starts
Jul 28, 2010
Jul 28, 2010
No longer in force
May 31, 2020
May 31, 2020
Granted
May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016
Term would have run to
Jul 28, 2030
Jul 28, 2030
base term
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
388
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,479,053, US 8,782,382.
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.
5
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 Jul 28, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 388 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jul 28, 2010, when application 12/845,554, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 14, 2013) | Jul 28, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +388 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 20, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,479,053, US 8,782,382) | capped to Jul 28, 2030 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 31, 2020 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 31, 2020 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,479,053 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| Application PCT/US2011/045797 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,782,382 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| US 9,354,878 | this patent May 2020 | May 2020 |
| US 10,073,719 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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Note
The 388 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,479,053, US 8,782,382.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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