Term ends Dec 7, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 30, 2026
Held by Snaptrack, Inc.
Filed Jun 30, 2006 as application 11/478,702 · Granted May 5, 2009
Base term plus 160 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2006
Jun 30, 2006
Term ends
Dec 7, 2026
Dec 7, 2026
Granted
May 5, 2009
May 5, 2009
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
160
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.
5
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 160 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jun 30, 2006, when this application, 11/478,702, was filed | Jun 30, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +160 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 7, 2026 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 7, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,527,998 | this patent Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2007/011812 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,102,590 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2020 | Jan 2020 |
| US 7,952,787 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2019 | May 2019 |
| US 8,964,280 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2019 | Feb 2019 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2006 Reel 18066, frame 612 | Tung, Ming-hau; Kogut, Lior | Qualcomm Mems Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 27, 2007 Reel 19493, frame 860 | Qualcomm Mems Technologies, Inc. | Qualcomm Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 27, 2008 Reel 20571, frame 253 | Qualcomm Incorporated | Qualcomm Mems Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 31, 2016 Reel 39891, frame 1 | Qualcomm Mems Technologies, Inc. | Snaptrack, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 7, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 160 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
24
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2009 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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