Also listed on Intel Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Nov 26, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 31, 2024
Held by Intel Products IP LLC
Filed Dec 30, 2004 as application 11/027,719 · Granted Feb 21, 2012
Base term plus 989 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2004
2026
Clock starts
Mar 31, 2004
Mar 31, 2004
Term ends
Nov 26, 2026
Nov 26, 2026
Granted
Feb 21, 2012
Feb 21, 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
989
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,783,769.
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.
10
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 989 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Mar 31, 2004, when application 10/815,895, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 30, 2004) | Mar 31, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +989 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 15, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,783,769) | capped to Nov 26, 2026 | 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 26, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,783,769 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2004/021015 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,788,391 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 8,121,125 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,238,360 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 7,525,967 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2013 | Apr 2013 |
| US 8,929,381 | Term ended Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
| US 9,602,443 | Term ended Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2026 Reel 76575, frame 783 | Intel Corporation | Intel Products IP LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Nov 2026
Term ends Nov 26, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 989 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,783,769.
Citations
29
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2012 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.