Term ends Sep 15, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 7, 2035
Held by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Filed Jan 7, 2015 as application 14/591,878 · Granted Jul 2, 2019
Base term plus 67 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015
Term ends
Sep 15, 2034
Sep 15, 2034
Granted
Jul 2, 2019
Jul 2, 2019
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
67
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,139,914.
1 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.
7
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 67 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Jan 7, 2015, when this application, 14/591,878, was filed | Jan 7, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +67 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 15, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,139,914) | capped to Sep 15, 2034 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force (reinstated) | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 15, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,338,678 | this patent Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| Application 14/591,877 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,965,761 | In force Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
| US 10,725,550 | In force Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
| US 10,338,685 | In force Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US D853,261 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 10,726,419 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2015 Reel 35398, frame 116 | Elangovan, Anusankar; Bradley, William Mitchell; Menon, Harsh | Nod, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 25, 2026 Reel 73894, frame 738 | Nod, Inc. | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | Merger |
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What's changing
Sep 2034
Term ends Sep 15, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 67 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,139,914.
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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