Term ends Apr 21, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 2, 2025
Filed May 2, 2005 as application 11/119,615 · Granted Feb 14, 2012
Base term plus 1450 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2029
Clock starts
May 2, 2005
May 2, 2005
Term ends
Apr 21, 2029
Apr 21, 2029
Granted
Feb 14, 2012
Feb 14, 2012
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
1,450
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.
15
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 1450 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 May 2, 2005, when this application, 11/119,615, was filed | May 2, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1450 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 21, 2029 | 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 | Apr 21, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,116,374 | this patent Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
| US 9,055,291 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 9,380,311 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 9,628,801 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 9,398,299 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 9,578,334 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 9,628,802 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 9,948,955 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
8 of 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2005 Reel 16300, frame 349 | Gordon, Stephen; Chin, Douglas | Broadcom Advanced Compression Group, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 25, 2009 Reel 22299, frame 916 | Broadcom Advanced Compression Group, LLC | Broadcom Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 3, 2015 Reel 36487, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Fish Dive, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 24, 2015 Reel 36648, frame 933 | Fish Dive, Inc. | Dolby International AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 28, 2016 Reel 37608, frame 185 | Dolby International AB | Dolby Laboratories Licensing 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 3, 2017 Reel 41712, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Broadcom Corporation | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
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What's changing
Apr 2029
Term ends Apr 21, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1450 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
132
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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