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US 7,924,809 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Apr 12, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Nov 22, 2006 as application 11/562,498 · Granted Apr 12, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1047 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 12, 2019
2006 2029
Clock starts
Nov 22, 2006
No longer in force
Apr 12, 2019
Granted
Apr 12, 2011
Term would have run to
Oct 4, 2029
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
1,047
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.

Its term would have run to Oct 4, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 1047 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 22, 2006, when this application, 11/562,498, was filedNov 22, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1047 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 4, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Apr 12, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 12, 2019High confidence

This family

US 7,924,809this patent
Apr 2019
Apr 2019
US 9,370,011In force
Nov 2026
Nov 2026
2 of 3 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Nov 3, 2009
Reel 23460, frame 61
Yin, Hujun; Srinivasan, Roshni; Ahmadi, SassanIntel CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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