Term ended Dec 22, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 22, 2025
Held by D-Wave Systems Inc.
Filed Aug 15, 2011 as application 13/210,169 · Granted Oct 9, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Dec 22, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Dec 22, 2005
Dec 22, 2005
Term ended
Dec 22, 2025
Dec 22, 2025
Granted
Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
12
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Dec 22, 2005, when application 11/317,838, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 15, 2011) | Dec 22, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | Dec 22, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,533,068 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 7,624,088 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 8,008,942 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 8,283,943 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,686,751 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,069,928 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,727,527 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 10,140,248 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 2015 Reel 34841, frame 497 | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Jan 29, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Jan 29, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Jan 30, 2015 Reel 34862, frame 237 | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Remove Appl. No. 8733763 Previously Recorded at Reel: 034841 Frame: 0497. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement. |
| Jan 30, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Remove Appl. No. 8733763 Previously Recorded at Reel: 034841 Frame: 0497. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement. |
| Jan 30, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Remove Appl. No. 8733763 Previously Recorded at Reel: 034841 Frame: 0497. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement. |
| Apr 13, 2017 Reel 42252, frame 256 | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc. | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 22, 2019 Reel 48674, frame 188 | D-Wave Systems Inc. | BDC Capital Inc. | Security Interest |
| Nov 29, 2019 Reel 51144, frame 499 | D-Wave Systems Inc. | BDC Capital Inc. | Security Interest |
| Mar 3, 2022 Reel 59317, frame 871 | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Pspib Unitas Investments II Inc. | Security Interest |
| Jun 28, 2022 Reel 60336, frame 400 | Berkley, Andrew J.; Van Den Brink, Alec Maassen; Love, Peter; Amin, Mohammad H.s.; Rose, Geordie; Grant, David; Steininger, Miles F.h.; Bunyk, Paul | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2022 Reel 60448, frame 485 | D-Wave Systems Inc. | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Continuation |
| Sep 20, 2022 Reel 61493, frame 694 | Pspib Unitas Investments II Inc., in Its Capacity as Collateral Agent | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 14, 2023 Reel 63340, frame 888 | D-Wave Systems Inc.; 1372934 B.C. Ltd. | Pspib Unitas Investments II Inc., as Collateral Agent | Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Mar 11, 2025 Reel 70470, frame 98 | Pspib Unitas Investments II Inc. | D-Wave Systems Inc.; 1372934 B.C. Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 11, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Pspib Unitas Investments II Inc. | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 11, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Pspib Unitas Investments II Inc. | 1372934 B.C. Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Citations
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later US patents cite this one
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