Term ended Jan 31, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 31, 2022
Filed Jan 31, 2002 as application 10/066,348 · Granted Sep 14, 2004
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jan 31, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Jan 31, 2002
Jan 31, 2002
Term ended
Jan 31, 2022
Jan 31, 2022
Granted
Sep 14, 2004
Sep 14, 2004
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
43
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 31, 2002, when this application, 10/066,348, was filed | Jan 31, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 31, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 60/276,610 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 7,095,744 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2018 | Aug 2018 |
| US 7,088,731 | Term ended Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 6,835,131 | Term ended Nov 2019 | Nov 2019 |
| US 6,704,372 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2016 | Mar 2016 |
| US 7,388,930 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2020 | Jun 2020 |
| US 6,791,423 | this patent Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
| US 7,353,004 | Term ended Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
8 of 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2002 Reel 12827, frame 10 | Leenaerts, Dominicus Martinus Wilhelmus; Dijkmans, Eise Carel | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 24, 2009 Reel 22856, frame 807 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | NXP B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 21, 2014 Reel 33579, frame 267 | NXP B.V. | Broadcom Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2016 Reel 37806, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 1, 2017 Reel 41706, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2017 Reel 41712, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Broadcom Corporation | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Oct 4, 2018 Reel 47196, frame 97 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Merger |
| Mar 6, 2019 Reel 48555, frame 510 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Execution Date Previously Recorded at Reel: 047196 Frame: 0097. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
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Citations
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later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2004 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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