Term ended Apr 16, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 19, 2021
Held by NXP USA, Inc.
Filed Oct 8, 2005 as application 11/245,898 · Granted Jan 4, 2011
Base term plus 1002 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 16, 2024
2001
2026
Clock starts
Jul 19, 2001
Jul 19, 2001
Term ended
Apr 16, 2024
Apr 16, 2024
Granted
Jan 4, 2011
Jan 4, 2011
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
1,002
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.
28
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 1002 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 Jul 19, 2001, when application 09/909,187, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 8, 2005) | Jul 19, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1002 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 16, 2024 | 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 | Apr 16, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,590,468 | Term ended Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| US 6,864,757 | Term ended Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| US 6,759,918 | Term ended Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Application 10/938,898 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,865,154 | this patent Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| Application 11/336,566 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,869,186 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
| US 8,064,188 | Surrendered on reissue Jul 2014 | Jul 2014 |
8 of 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2006 Reel 17731, frame 602 | Mendolia, Greg; Martin Iii, James Andrew; Khayo, Izz; Du Toit, Cornelis Frederik; Bachmann, Heinz; McKinzie, William | Paratek Microwave, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 31, 2012 Reel 28686, frame 432 | Paratek Microwave, Inc. | Research in Motion RF, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jul 30, 2013 Reel 30909, frame 908 | Research in Motion RF, Inc. | Research in Motion Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 30, 2013 Reel 30909, frame 933 | Research in Motion Corporation | BlackBerry Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 5, 2020 Reel 52095, frame 443 | BlackBerry Limited | NXP USA, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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The 1002 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
232
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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