Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 30, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ended Jan 10, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 10, 2025
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Nov 24, 2025.
Held by Creeled, Inc.
Filed Jun 5, 2008 as application 12/156,995 · Granted Oct 17, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jan 10, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jan 10, 2005
Jan 10, 2005
Term ended
Jan 10, 2025
Jan 10, 2025
Granted
Oct 17, 2017
Oct 17, 2017
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 7,821,023, to Jan 10, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
197
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 is 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: 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 Jan 10, 2005, when application 11/032,363, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 5, 2008) | Jan 10, 2025 | 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 7,821,023) | resolves to Jan 10, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Nov 24, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 10, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,564,180 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2005/039403 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,125,137 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 9,070,850 | In force Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| US 7,821,023 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 9,793,247 | this patent Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2009/001628 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2009/002155 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 197 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2008 Reel 21774, frame 117 | Yuan, Thomas; Keller, Bernd; Ibbetson, James; Tarsa, Eric | Cree, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 30, 2008 Reel 21774, frame 171 | Morgan, Frederick; Dowling, Kevin; Lys, Ihor | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 29, 2021 Reel 57017, frame 311 | Cree, Inc. | Creeled, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 18, 2024 Reel 66817, frame 176 | Cree Incorporated | United States Department of Energy | Confirmatory License |
| Jun 30, 2025 Reel 71755, frame 1 | Creeled, Inc.; Penguin Solutions Corporation (De); Smart Embedded Computing, Inc.; Smart High Reliability Solutions LLC; Smart Modular Technologies, Inc.; Penguin Computing, Inc. | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Patent Security Agreement |
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,821,023, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
252
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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