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Asymmetric Memory Migration in Hybrid Main Memory

US 9,672,158 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jun 6, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 9,262,333), so the cap could be lower.

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by SanDisk Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jan 7, 2016 as application 14/990,314 · Granted Jun 6, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 40 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Jun 6, 2025
2007 2027
Clock starts
Nov 5, 2007
No longer in force
Jun 6, 2025
Granted
Jun 6, 2017
Term would have run to
Aug 30, 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
40
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 7,774,556, US 8,555,002, US 9,262,333.
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.

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 filingClock starts Nov 5, 2007, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jan 7, 2016)Nov 5, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+40 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 15, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,774,556, US 8,555,002, US 9,262,333)capped to Aug 30, 2027Medium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 6, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 6, 2025Medium confidence

Sources

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