Also listed on Solidcore Systems, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 3, 2022 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).

Term ends Jan 26, 2030 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by McAfee, LLC

Filed Nov 7, 2008 as application 12/291,232 · Granted Aug 23, 2016

Base term plus 748 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jan 26, 2030

2008 2030

Clock starts
Jan 9, 2008

Term ends
Jan 26, 2030

Granted
Aug 23, 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

748

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.

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 748 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 9, 2008, when application 12/008,274, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 7, 2008); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Jan 9, 2028	High confidence
Continuity chain	A parent in the chain could not be resolved	dated from this application's own claim	Medium confidence
Patent term adjustment	+748 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jan 26, 2030	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	Jan 26, 2030	Medium confidence

This family

US 8,332,929	In force Dec 2030	Dec 2030
US 9,424,154	this patent Jan 2030	Jan 2030
US 8,701,182	Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2026	Apr 2026
US 8,707,422	Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2026	Apr 2026
US 9,864,868	In force Jan 2028	Jan 2028

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
Nov 7, 2008 Reel 21871, frame 928	Bhargava, Rishi; Reese, David P., JR.	Solidcore Systems, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 20, 2009 Reel 22973, frame 458	Solidcore Systems, Inc.	McAfee, Inc.	Merger
Aug 24, 2017 Reel 43665, frame 918	McAfee, Inc.	McAfee, LLC	Change of Name and Entity Conversion
Jan 12, 2018 Reel 45055, frame 786	McAfee, LLC	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Security Interest
Jan 12, 2018 Reel 45056, frame 676	McAfee, LLC	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Security Interest
Oct 22, 2020 Reel 54206, frame 593	McAfee, LLC	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045056 Frame 0676. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.
Oct 22, 2020 Reel 55854, frame 47	McAfee, LLC	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045055 Frame 786. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.
Oct 26, 2020 Reel 54238, frame 1	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent	McAfee, LLC	Release of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045055/0786
Mar 2, 2022 Reel 59354, frame 213	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent	McAfee, LLC	Release of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045056/0676
Mar 3, 2022 Reel 59354, frame 335	McAfee, LLC	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Jun 23, 2022 Reel 60792, frame 307	McAfee, LLC	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent	Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Patent Titles and Remove Duplicates in the Schedule Previously Recorded at Reel: 059354 Frame: 0335. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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What's changing

Jan 2030

Term ends Jan 26, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 748 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

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

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