Lapsed Oct 13, 2023 on the fee record · Low confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Intel Corporation

Filed Nov 4, 2013 as application 14/071,113 · Granted Oct 13, 2015

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Oct 13, 2023

2005 2026

Clock starts
Sep 29, 2005

No longer in force
Oct 13, 2023

Granted
Oct 13, 2015

Term would have run to
Sep 29, 2025

base term 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

Unresolved

Terminal disclaimer

On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.

1 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.

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 Sep 29, 2025: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. Confidence: Low. 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 29, 2005, when application 11/241,275, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 4, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Sep 29, 2025	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	None on file	no change	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	1 of 2 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Oct 13, 2023	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Oct 13, 2023	Low confidence

This family

US 7,516,336	In force Nov 2026	Nov 2026
US 9,158,362	this patent Oct 2023	Oct 2023

2 of 4 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

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Note

A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed

Open question

A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Oct 13, 2023. We will not guess the cap.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2015 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

System and Method for Power Reduction by Sequestering at Least One Device or Partition in a Platform from Operating System Access