Term ends Nov 18, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 31, 2034
Held by Qorvo US, Inc.
Filed Oct 14, 2016 as application 15/293,947 · Granted Aug 28, 2018
USPTO first gave this application the numbers US 10,026,675, US 9,870,976, US 9,899,295, US 9,947,608 and US 9,991,186 and withdrew each before it issued. Those numbers now lead here.
Base term plus 18 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Oct 31, 2014
Oct 31, 2014
Term ends
Nov 18, 2034
Nov 18, 2034
Granted
Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 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
18
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.
8
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 18 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 Oct 31, 2014, when application 14/529,870, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 14, 2016) | Oct 31, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +18 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 18, 2034 | 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 18, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 13/852,648 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 14/260,909 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,214,337 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| Application 14/315,765 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,583,414 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,812,350 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 10,062,637 | this patent Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
| US 10,134,627 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
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 14, 2016 Reel 40022, frame 427 | Costa, Julio C.; Shuttleworth, David M.; Antonell, Michael J. | Qorvo US, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Nov 2034
Term ends Nov 18, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 18 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.