Term ended no later than Jul 29, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended May 24, 2025
No current holder resolved from the recorded chain.
Filed May 14, 2012 as application 13/470,600 · Granted Oct 14, 2014
Base term plus 66 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Ended no later than Jul 29, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
May 24, 2005
May 24, 2005
Ended no later than
Jul 29, 2025
Jul 29, 2025
Granted
Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014
base term
patent term adjustment
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
66
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
5
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 66 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. Confidence: Medium. 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 May 24, 2005, when application 11/136,057, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 14, 2012) | May 24, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +66 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 29, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | no later than Jul 29, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,528,040 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2006/009493 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,188,483 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 8,859,366 | this patent no later than Jul 2025 | no later than Jul 2025 |
| US 9,142,663 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2023 Reel 64185, frame 755 | Wolfspeed, Inc. | U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association | Security Interest |
| Sep 30, 2025 Reel 72989, frame 1 | U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Collateral Agent | Wolfspeed, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Intellectual Property Collateral at Reel/Frame No. 64185/0755 |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 66 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Jul 29, 2025. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2014 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.