Term ended Jun 1, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 1, 2025
Held by Synaptics Incorporated
Filed Mar 7, 2017 as application 15/452,718 · Granted Jun 5, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jun 1, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jun 1, 2005
Jun 1, 2005
Term ended
Jun 1, 2025
Jun 1, 2025
Granted
Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
8
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 is its 20-year base term, with no 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 Jun 1, 2005, when application 11/143,275, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 7, 2017) | Jun 1, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 1, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,439,962 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2006/021224 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,085,250 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 8,330,742 | Term ended Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 8,797,292 | Term ended Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 9,591,764 | Term ended no later than Jan 2026 | no later than Jan 2026 |
| US 9,990,061 | this patent Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 10,254,860 | Term ended Jun 2025 | Jun 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2017 Reel 44037, frame 896 | Synaptics Incorporated | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | Security Interest |
| Feb 21, 2018 Reel 45403, frame 105 | Reynolds, Joseph Kurth; Day, Shawn P. | Synaptics Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
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How we rank
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