Collateral for a security interest recorded May 9, 2012 (Union Bank, N.A.).
Term ended Sep 30, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 30, 2025
Held by Viasat, Inc.
Filed Sep 22, 2008 as application 12/235,004 · Granted Apr 6, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Sep 30, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Sep 30, 2005
Sep 30, 2005
Term ended
Sep 30, 2025
Sep 30, 2025
Granted
Apr 6, 2010
Apr 6, 2010
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,443,920, to Sep 30, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
3
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. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Sep 30, 2005, when application 11/240,996, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 22, 2008) | Sep 30, 2025 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,443,920) | resolves to Sep 30, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Sep 30, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,443,920 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 7,693,245 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 8,306,155 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
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 22, 2008 Reel 21566, frame 876 | Thesling, William; Mo, Fan | Efficient Channel Coding, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 22, 2008 Reel 21566, frame 891 | Efficient Channel Coding, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 9, 2012 Reel 28184, frame 152 | Viasat, Inc. | Union Bank, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| Mar 27, 2019 Reel 48715, frame 589 | Viasat, Inc. | Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Trustee | Security Interest |
| Mar 7, 2022 Reel 59332, frame 558 | Viasat, Inc. | Bank Of America, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| Jun 1, 2023 Reel 63822, frame 446 | Viasat, Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as Agent | Security Agreement |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,443,920, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2010 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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