Also listed on Inlet Technologies, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends Jan 20, 2031 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by NDS Limited

Filed Feb 5, 2010 as application 12/672,434 · Granted Aug 23, 2016

Base term plus 896 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jan 20, 2031

2008 2031

Clock starts
Aug 7, 2008

Term ends
Jan 20, 2031

Granted
Aug 23, 2016

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

896

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

2 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.

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 896 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Aug 7, 2008, when application PCT/US2008/009476, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 5, 2010)	Aug 7, 2028	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+896 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jan 20, 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	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jan 20, 2031	High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2008/009476	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 9,426,479	this patent Jan 2031	Jan 2031

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
Feb 5, 2010 Reel 23907, frame 196	Shaffer, Gary	Inlet Technologies	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 24, 2011 Reel 25855, frame 73	Shaffer, Gary	Inlet Technologies, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 6, 2011 Reel 25907, frame 380	Shaffer, Gary	Inlet Technologies, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the to Correct the Identification of the Assignee. Previously Recorded on Reel 025855 Frame 0073. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.
Oct 26, 2011 Reel 27127, frame 465	Inlet Technologies LLC	Cisco Technology, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 26, 2011 Reel 27129, frame 247	Inlet Technologies, Inc.	Inlet Technologies LLC	Change of Name
Oct 30, 2018 Reel 47364, frame 34	Triton US VP Acquisition Co.	Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Security Agreement (First Lien)
Oct 31, 2018 Reel 47376, frame 449	Triton US VP Acquisition Co.	Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Security Agreement (Second Lien)
Nov 5, 2018 Reel 47419, frame 1	Cisco Technology, Inc.	Triton US VP Acquisition Co.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 4, 2019 Reel 50113, frame 701	Triton US VP Acquisition Co.	NDS Limited	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 10, 2020 Reel 53442, frame 203	Cisco Technology, Inc.	Triton US VP Acquisition Co.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Conveying and Assignee Previously Recorded at Reel: 050113 Frame: 0701. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.
Aug 2, 2021 Reel 57049, frame 808	Cisco Technology, Inc.	Triton US VP Acquisition Co.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Owner Change Previously Recorded at Reel: 050113 Frame: 0701. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.
Dec 5, 2023 Reel 65766, frame 64	Bank Of America, N. A.	Synamedia Vividtec Holdings, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Dec 5, 2023 Reel 65775, frame 517	Synamedia Vividtec Holdings, Inc.	Adams Street Credit Advisors LP	Security Agreement
Dec 18, 2023 Reel 65902, frame 726	Synamedia Vivdtec Holdings, Inc.	Denali European Opportunities Designated Activity Company	Security Interest
Dec 9, 2025 Reel 73156, frame 488	Denali European Opportunities Designated Activity Company	Synamedia Vividtec Holdings, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Jun 29, 2026 Reel 75124, frame 159	Adams Street Credit Advisors LP	Synamedia Vividtec Holdings, Inc.	Release of Security Interest

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

Jan 2031

Term ends Jan 20, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 896 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

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