Also listed on STMicroelectronics S.r.I., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 26, 2032 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 14, 2032
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Filed Dec 18, 2012 as application 13/717,766 · Granted Mar 10, 2015
Base term plus 42 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Sep 14, 2012
Sep 14, 2012
Term ends
Oct 26, 2032
Oct 26, 2032
Granted
Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015
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
42
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.
3
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 42 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Sep 14, 2012, when application 13/618,967, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 18, 2012); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Sep 14, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +42 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 26, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 26, 2032 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,976,151 | this patent Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| US 9,523,725 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
2 of 3 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2014 Reel 34151, frame 442 | Tan, Kien Beng; Lasalandra, Ernesto; Ungaretti, Tommaso; Guedon, Yannick; Guo, Dianbo; Angelini, Paolo; Tripoli, Giovanni Carlo | Stmicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.; Stmicroelectronics S.R.L. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 12, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Angelini, Paolo; Ungaretti, Tommaso; Lasalandra, Ernesto; Guedon, Yannick; Guo, Dianbo; Tan, Kien Beng; Tripoli, Giovanni Carlo | Stmicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 12, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Angelini, Paolo; Ungaretti, Tommaso; Lasalandra, Ernesto; Guedon, Yannick; Guo, Dianbo; Tan, Kien Beng; Tripoli, Giovanni Carlo | Stmicroelectronics S.R.L. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 7, 2022 Reel 60126, frame 592 | Stmicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. | Stmicroelectronics International N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 7, 2022 Reel 60301, frame 355 | Stmicroelectronics S.R.L. | Stmicroelectronics International N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Oct 2032
Term ends Oct 26, 2032. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 42 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
76
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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