Lapsed Nov 8, 2024 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 8,093,922, US 8,723,549), so the cap could be lower.

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Altera Corporation

Filed Apr 7, 2014 as application 14/246,955 · Granted Nov 8, 2016

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Nov 8, 2024

2007 2027

Clock starts
May 27, 2007

No longer in force
Nov 8, 2024

Granted
Nov 8, 2016

Term would have run to
May 27, 2027

base term after the term ends 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,093,922, US 8,723,549, to May 27, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

1 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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.

Its term would have run to May 27, 2027: its 20-year base term, with no 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: 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 May 27, 2007, when application 11/754,300, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 7, 2014)	May 27, 2027	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,093,922, US 8,723,549)	resolves to May 27, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 2 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Nov 8, 2024	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Nov 8, 2024	Medium confidence

This family

US 7,521,959	Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2021	Apr 2021
US 8,093,922	Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2024	Jan 2024
US 8,723,549	In force no later than May 2027	no later than May 2027
US 9,490,814	this patent Nov 2024	Nov 2024

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
May 27, 2015 Reel 35783, frame 55	Tabula, Inc.	Tabula (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors), LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 2, 2015 Reel 36050, frame 792	Tabula (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors), LLC	Altera Corporation	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,093,922, US 8,723,549, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

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

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.

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