Also listed on Venturi Wireless, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Sep 8, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 13, 2030
Held by Apple Inc.
Filed Dec 13, 2010 as application 12/966,868 · Granted Jul 2, 2013
Base term plus 269 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2031
Clock starts
Dec 13, 2010
Dec 13, 2010
Term ends
Sep 8, 2031
Sep 8, 2031
Granted
Jul 2, 2013
Jul 2, 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
269
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.
4
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 269 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 Dec 13, 2010, when this application, 12/966,868, was filed | Dec 13, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +269 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 8, 2031 | 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 | Sep 8, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,478,320 | this patent Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| US 9,204,446 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 10,149,299 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 10,820,324 | In force no later than Dec 2030 | no later than Dec 2030 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 2010 Reel 25547, frame 253 | Tofighbakhsh, Mostafa | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 28, 2013 Reel 31506, frame 516 | Gupta, Vivek | Intel Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 10, 2015 Reel 36062, frame 106 | Ramadas, Krishna | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 25, 2020 Reel 53066, frame 1 | Intel Corporation | Apple Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2031
Term ends Sep 8, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 269 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is below 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.