Also listed on NXP USA, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 22, 2019 (Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.).

Term ends Nov 19, 2026 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by NXP B.V.

Filed Jul 26, 2010 as application 11/993,323 · Granted May 24, 2011

Base term plus 144 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Nov 19, 2026

2006 2026

Clock starts
Jun 28, 2006

Term ends
Nov 19, 2026

Granted
May 24, 2011

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

144

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.

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 144 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 Jun 28, 2006, when application PCT/IB2006/052155, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 26, 2010)	Jun 28, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+144 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Nov 19, 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	3 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Nov 19, 2026	High confidence

This family

US 7,948,419

this patent

Nov 2026

1 of 2 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 15, 2011 Reel 26134, frame 157	Butzmann, Stefan	NXP B.V.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 7, 2016 Reel 38017, frame 58	NXP B.V.	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Security Agreement Supplement
Jul 14, 2016 Reel 39361, frame 212	NXP B.V.	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Application 12092129 Previously Recorded on Reel 038017 Frame 0058. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement Supplement.
May 9, 2017 Reel 42762, frame 145	NXP B.V.	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Application 12681366 Previously Recorded on Reel 039361 Frame 0212. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement Supplement.
May 9, 2017 Reel 42985, frame 1	NXP B.V.	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Application 12681366 Previously Recorded on Reel 038017 Frame 0058. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement Supplement.
Sep 10, 2019 Reel 50745, frame 1	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	NXP B.V.	Release of Security Interest
Oct 22, 2019 Reel 51029, frame 1	NXP B.V.	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Application 12298143 Previously Recorded on Reel 042985 Frame 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement Supplement.
Oct 22, 2019 Reel 51029, frame 387	NXP B.V.	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Application 12298143 Previously Recorded on Reel 039361 Frame 0212. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement Supplement.
Oct 22, 2019 Reel 51030, frame 1	NXP B.V.	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Application 12298143 Previously Recorded on Reel 038017 Frame 0058. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement Supplement.
Oct 22, 2019 Reel 51145, frame 184	NXP B.V.	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Application 12298143 Previously Recorded on Reel 042762 Frame 0145. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement Supplement.

Sources

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What's changing

Nov 2026

Term ends Nov 19, 2026. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 144 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2011 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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