Lapsed Aug 12, 2018 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 8, 2032
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed May 23, 2012 as application 13/478,970 · Granted Aug 12, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 117 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 12, 2018
2012
2032
Clock starts
Feb 8, 2012
Feb 8, 2012
No longer in force
Aug 12, 2018
Aug 12, 2018
Granted
Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014
Term would have run to
Jun 4, 2032
Jun 4, 2032
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
117
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
2
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 Jun 4, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 117 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 Feb 8, 2012, when application 13/368,887, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 23, 2012) | Feb 8, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +117 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 4, 2032 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 12, 2018 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 12, 2018 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,118,982 | In force Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 8,805,183 | this patent Aug 2018 | Aug 2018 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 2012 Reel 29256, frame 895 | Broadcom Broadband Acess Ltd. | Broadcom International Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 7, 2012 Reel 29256, frame 939 | Broadcom International Limited | Broadcom Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 7, 2012 Reel 29259, frame 975 | Broadlight Ltd. | Broadcom Broadband Access Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Nov 8, 2012 Reel 29263, frame 909 | Dvir, Amiad | Broadcom Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2016 Reel 37806, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 1, 2017 Reel 41706, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2017 Reel 41712, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Broadcom Corporation | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Oct 5, 2018 Reel 47642, frame 417 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Merger |
| Mar 6, 2019 Reel 48521, frame 395 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Execution Date of the Merger Previously Recorded on Reel 047642 Frame 0417. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment, |
Sources
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Note
The 117 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
20
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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