Lapsed Apr 16, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.

Filed Jan 10, 2012 as application 13/346,749 · Granted Apr 16, 2013

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 7 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Apr 16, 2025

2006 2026

Clock starts
Jul 25, 2006

No longer in force
Apr 16, 2025

Granted
Apr 16, 2013

Term would have run to
Aug 1, 2026

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

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

2 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.

Its term would have run to Aug 1, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 7 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jul 25, 2006, when application 11/492,305, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 10, 2012)	Jul 25, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+7 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 1, 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	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Apr 16, 2025	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Apr 16, 2025	High confidence

This family

US 8,115,282	In force Apr 2029	Apr 2029
US 8,420,481	this patent Apr 2025	Apr 2025
US 8,952,493	Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2019	Feb 2019

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
Oct 8, 2012 Reel 29090, frame 922	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Opus Bank	Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2013 Reel 31371, frame 581	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Bridge Bank, National Association	Security Agreement
Oct 15, 2013 reel/frame not recorded	Opus Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation	Release of Security Interest
Oct 15, 2013 reel/frame not recorded	Opus Bank	Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
Oct 15, 2013 Reel 31414, frame 232	Opus Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 22, 2015 Reel 35754, frame 580	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Opus Bank	Security Interest
Oct 3, 2017 reel/frame not recorded	Western Alliance Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation	Release of Security Interest
Oct 3, 2017 reel/frame not recorded	Western Alliance Bank	Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
Oct 3, 2017 Reel 44219, frame 610	Western Alliance Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 8, 2018 Reel 46105, frame 731	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Obsidian Agency Services, Inc., as Collateral Agent	Security Interest
May 9, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	Opus Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation	Release of Security Interest
May 9, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	Opus Bank	Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 9, 2019 Reel 49125, frame 970	Opus Bank	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
Sep 24, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	Obsidian Agency Services, Inc., as Collateral Agent	Adesto Technologies Corporation	Release of Security Interest
Sep 24, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	Obsidian Agency Services, Inc., as Collateral Agent	Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
Sep 24, 2019 Reel 50480, frame 836	Obsidian Agency Services, Inc., as Collateral Agent	Adesto Technologies Corporation; Artemis Acquisition LLC	Release of Security Interest
Mar 20, 2023 Reel 63118, frame 352	Renesas Design US Inc. (Formerly Known as Dialog Semiconductor US Inc. as Successor-in-Interest to Adesto Technologies Corporation and Artemis Acquisition, LLC)	GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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Note

The 7 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 above the median of utility patents granted in 2013 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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