Term ended Jul 26, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 21, 2025
Filed Sep 20, 2005 as application 11/232,409 · Granted Jul 24, 2007
Base term plus 127 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 26, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Mar 21, 2005
Mar 21, 2005
Term ended
Jul 26, 2025
Jul 26, 2025
Granted
Jul 24, 2007
Jul 24, 2007
base term
patent term adjustment
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
127
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
33
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 127 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Mar 21, 2005, when applications 11/084,962 and 11/085,372, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Sep 20, 2005) | Mar 21, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +127 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 26, 2025 | 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 | Jul 26, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,227,423 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 7,227,424 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 7,456,699 | Term ended no later than Mar 2025 | no later than Mar 2025 |
| US 7,248,124 | this patent Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2005/034016 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2005/033979 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2005/034020 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,307,486 | Term ended Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
8 of 33 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 20, 2005 Reel 17027, frame 844 | McCorquodale, Michael Shannon; Pernia, Scott Michael; Kubba, Sundus; Basu, Amar Sarbbasesh | Mobius Microsystems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 2, 2010 Reel 24016, frame 414 | Mobius Microsystems, Inc. | Integrated Device Technology, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Apr 5, 2017 Reel 42166, frame 431 | Integrated Device Technology, Inc.; Gigpeak, Inc.; Magnum Semiconductor, Inc.; Endwave Corporation; Chipx, Incorporated | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Mar 29, 2019 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Integrated Device Technology, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 29, 2019 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Gigpeak, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 29, 2019 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Chipx, Incorporated | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 29, 2019 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Endwave Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 29, 2019 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 29, 2019 Reel 48746, frame 1 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Integrated Device Technology, Inc.; Gigpeak, Inc.; Chipx, Incorporated; Endwave Corporation; Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 127 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2007 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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