Lapsed Sep 5, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended May 16, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Altera Corporation
Filed Jun 16, 2016 as application 15/184,921 · Granted Sep 5, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Sep 5, 2025
2006
2026
Clock starts
May 16, 2006
May 16, 2006
No longer in force
Sep 5, 2025
Sep 5, 2025
Granted
Sep 5, 2017
Sep 5, 2017
Term would have run to
May 16, 2026
May 16, 2026
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
7
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 16, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 16, 2006, when application 11/435,416, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 16, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 16, 2026 | 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 | None on file | no change | 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 | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 5, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 5, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,479,798 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,604,823 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| Application 14/089,364 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,755,650 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 10,720,927 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| Application 15/639,869 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/919,941 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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Citations
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later US patents cite this one
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