Term ends Jan 8, 2033 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 5, 2032
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Origin Research Wireless, Inc.
Filed Sep 9, 2018 as application 16/125,748 · Granted Nov 10, 2020
Base term plus 34 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2033
Clock starts
Dec 5, 2012
Dec 5, 2012
Term ends
Jan 8, 2033
Jan 8, 2033
Granted
Nov 10, 2020
Nov 10, 2020
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
34
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
122
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 34 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Dec 5, 2012, when application 13/706,342, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 9, 2018); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Dec 5, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +34 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 8, 2033 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 8, 2033 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,883,511 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| US 9,559,874 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 9,882,675 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 9,313,020 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 9,226,304 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| US 9,407,306 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| Application 14/445,268 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,006,246 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
8 of 122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2018 Reel 46822, frame 363 | Au, Oscar Chi-lim; Marumo, Masato; Wang, Beibei; Lai, Hung-quoc Duc; Liu, K. J. Ray; Chen, Chen; Xu, Qinyi; Han, Yi; Wu, Zhung-han; Zhang, Feng; Safar, Zoltan; Lee, Jeng-feng; Buttermore, Thomas Nelson, JR. | Origin Wireless, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 30, 2024 Reel 72053, frame 119 | Origin Wireless, Inc. | Origin Research Wireless, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jan 2033
Term ends Jan 8, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 34 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
142
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2020 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.