Term ended Jan 5, 2025 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 1, 2022
Reissue of US 9,417,883, which was surrendered when this reissue was granted; its term and maintenance fees continue here.
Held by Broadcom Corporation
Filed Aug 14, 2018 as application 16/103,107 · Granted Dec 7, 2021
Base term plus 1010 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jan 5, 2025
2002
2026
Clock starts
Apr 1, 2002
Apr 1, 2002
Term ended
Jan 5, 2025
Jan 5, 2025
Granted
Dec 7, 2021
Dec 7, 2021
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
1,010
Days of term adjustment
Read from the original patent's USPTO patent term adjustment record, which governs a reissue. Not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,284,844, to Jan 5, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from the original patent's grant (Aug 16, 2016). This counts the ones the record shows paid.
6
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 1010 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: Low. 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 Apr 1, 2002, when application 10/114,798, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 14, 2018) | Apr 1, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A reissue: its term follows the original patent's, with the original's term adjustment | follows the original patent | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1010 days, the original patent's USPTO patent term adjustment record, which governs a reissue (35 U.S.C. 251). This reissue's own record carries none | Jan 5, 2025 | Medium confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,284,844) | resolves to Jan 5, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 5, 2025 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,284,844 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 7,881,385 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 8,229,002 | Term ended Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| US 9,417,883 | Surrendered on reissue Dec 2021 | Dec 2021 |
| US 9,329,871 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US RE48,845 | this patent Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
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 26, 2019 Reel 48702, frame 108 | Macinnis, Alexander G.; Alvarez, Jose' R.; Zhong, Sheng; Xie, Xiaodong; Hsiun, Vivian | Broadcom Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 1010 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,284,844, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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