Term ends Nov 6, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 9, 2030
Held by SanDisk Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jul 28, 2011 as application 13/193,559 · Granted Jul 3, 2018
Base term plus 789 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2032
Clock starts
Sep 9, 2010
Sep 9, 2010
Term ends
Nov 6, 2032
Nov 6, 2032
Granted
Jul 3, 2018
Jul 3, 2018
base term
patent term adjustment
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
789
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 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
78
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 789 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Sep 9, 2010, when application 12/879,004, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 28, 2011) | Sep 9, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +789 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 6, 2032 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 6, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,296,337 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| US 8,019,938 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| US 8,261,005 | In force Feb 2030 | Feb 2030 |
| US 8,495,292 | In force Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 8,516,343 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2021 | Aug 2021 |
| US 8,935,302 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| US 8,706,968 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 8,719,501 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
8 of 78 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 10, 2011 Reel 27037, frame 37 | Flynn, David; Uphoff, Stephan; Ouyang, Xiangyong; Nellans, David; Wipfel, Robert | Fusion-Io, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 23, 2014 Reel 33389, frame 511 | Fusion-Io, Inc. | Intellectual Property Holdings 2 LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 24, 2014 Reel 33410, frame 158 | Intelligent Intellectual Property Holdings 2 LLC | Fusion-Io, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Jul 26, 2014 Reel 33419, frame 748 | Fusion-Io, Inc. | Intelligent Intellectual Property Holdings 2 LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 31, 2016 Reel 38324, frame 628 | Longitude Enterprise Flash SARL | SanDisk Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 13, 2016 Reel 38362, frame 575 | Intelligent Intellectual Property Holdings 2 LLC | PS12 Luxco S.A.R.L. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 13, 2016 Reel 38362, frame 604 | PS12 Luxco S.A.R.L. | Longitude Enterprise Flash S.A.R.L. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 4, 2016 Reel 38748, frame 880 | Fusion-Io, Inc. | SanDisk Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| May 25, 2016 Reel 38807, frame 807 | SanDisk Technologies Inc. | SanDisk Technologies LLC | Change of Name |
| Dec 31, 2024 Reel 69796, frame 423 | SanDisk Technologies LLC | SanDisk Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 25, 2025 Reel 71050, frame 1 | SanDisk Technologies, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Apr 25, 2025 Reel 71382, frame 1 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Agent | SanDisk Technologies, Inc. | Partial Release of Security Interests |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2032
Term ends Nov 6, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 789 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
143
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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