Term ends Sep 8, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 16, 2025
Held by Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
Filed Dec 16, 2005 as application 11/303,364 · Granted Jan 12, 2010
Base term plus 631 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Dec 16, 2005
Dec 16, 2005
Term ends
Sep 8, 2027
Sep 8, 2027
Granted
Jan 12, 2010
Jan 12, 2010
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
631
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.
2
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 631 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 Dec 16, 2005, when this application, 11/303,364, was filed | Dec 16, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +631 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 8, 2027 | 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 | Sep 8, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,646,699 | this patent Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2006/047241 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 2005 Reel 17397, frame 741 | Tellado, Jose; Kasturia, Sanjay | Teranetics Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2011 Reel 26517, frame 802 | Teranetics, Inc. | PLX Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2012 Reel 29006, frame 838 | PLX Technology, Inc.; Teranetics, Inc. | Aquantia Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 17, 2013 Reel 29660, frame 340 | Tellado, Jose; Kasturia, Sanjay | Teranetics, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 017397 Frame 0741. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Change of Assignee from "Teranetics Incorporated" to Read "Teranetics, Inc." as Indicated in the Executed Assignment.. |
| Feb 17, 2020 Reel 51945, frame 520 | Aquantia Corporation | Cavium International | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 15, 2020 Reel 53179, frame 320 | Cavium International | Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2027
Term ends Sep 8, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 631 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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