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Charging a Chargeable Power Supply of a Near Field Communication (NFC) Enabled Device from a Radio Frequency (RF) Signal Inductively Coupled onto a Magnetic Field

US 8,432,293 In force
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Term ends Dec 10, 2028 · High confidence

Filed Jul 17, 2007 as application 11/795,434 · Granted Apr 30, 2013
Base term plus 1056 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2006 2028
Clock starts
Jan 19, 2006
Term ends
Dec 10, 2028
Granted
Apr 30, 2013
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
1,056
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.
43
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 1056 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 19, 2006, when application PCT/GB2006/000195, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 17, 2007)Jan 19, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1056 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 10, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 10, 2028High confidence

This family

Application 60/276,610Pending
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US 7,095,744Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2018
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US 7,088,731Term ended
Jul 2023
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US 6,835,131Term ended
Nov 2019
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US 6,704,372Lapsed on the fee record
Mar 2016
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US 7,388,930Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2020
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US 6,791,423Term ended
Jan 2022
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US 7,353,004Term ended
Jun 2022
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8 of 43 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Aug 7, 2007
Reel 19663, frame 529
Symons, PeterInnovision Research & Technology PLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 21, 2013
Reel 30059, frame 162
Innovision Research & Technology PLCBroadcom Innovision LimitedChange of Name
Mar 7, 2014
Reel 32400, frame 673
Broadcom Innovision LimitedBroadcom Europe LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 17, 2017
Reel 41749, frame 105
Broadcom Europe LimitedNXP USA, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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