Term ended Dec 8, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 25, 2023
Held by Qualcomm Incorporated
Filed Jul 14, 2006 as application 11/486,601 · Granted May 23, 2017
Base term plus 836 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Dec 8, 2025
2003
2026
Clock starts
Aug 25, 2003
Aug 25, 2003
Term ended
Dec 8, 2025
Dec 8, 2025
Granted
May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017
base term
patent term adjustment
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
836
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 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.
49
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 836 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 25, 2003, when application 10/648,766, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 14, 2006) | Aug 25, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +836 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 8, 2025 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 8, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,218,948 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 9,544,860 | In force Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| US 8,514,692 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
| Application 11/302,729 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,338,767 | In force Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
| US 8,811,348 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 9,572,179 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 9,661,519 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
8 of 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 2008 Reel 20684, frame 224 | Das, Arnab; Rangan, Sundeep; Anigstein, Pablo; Li, Junyi; Uppala, Sathyadev Venkata; Laroia, Rajiv | Qualcomm Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 836 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
63
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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