Lapsed May 11, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 10, 2026
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Mar 10, 2006 as application 11/372,560 · Granted May 11, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 135 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 11, 2022
2006
2026
Clock starts
Mar 10, 2006
Mar 10, 2006
No longer in force
May 11, 2022
May 11, 2022
Granted
May 11, 2010
May 11, 2010
Term would have run to
Jul 23, 2026
Jul 23, 2026
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
135
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
30
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jul 23, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 135 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 10, 2006, when this application, 11/372,560, was filed | Mar 10, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +135 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 23, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 11, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 11, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,714,780 | this patent May 2022 | May 2022 |
| Application 11/472,205 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/527,959 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,893,878 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 7,557,758 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Application 12/188,060 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/188,073 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,180,285 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
8 of 30 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 25, 2006 Reel 17525, frame 972 | Rofougaran, Ahmadreza Reza | 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 687 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Merger |
| Oct 29, 2018 Reel 47630, frame 344 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Effective Date of Merger to 9/5/2018 Previously Recorded at Reel: 047196 Frame: 0687. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
| Mar 21, 2019 Reel 48883, frame 267 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Property Numbers Previously Recorded at Reel: 47630 Frame: 344. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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Note
The 135 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
285
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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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