Term ends Jul 31, 2027 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Pioneer Corporation

Filed Aug 23, 2016 as application 15/244,287 · Granted Feb 11, 2020

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jul 31, 2027

2007 2027

Clock starts
Jul 31, 2007

Term ends
Jul 31, 2027

Granted
Feb 11, 2020

base term 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.

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,638,976, to Jul 31, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

1 of 1

Maintenance fees paid

One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it 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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 1 maintenance fees is 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 Jul 31, 2007, when application PCT/JP2007/065007, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 23, 2016)	Jul 31, 2027	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	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,638,976)	resolves to Jul 31, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 1 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jul 31, 2027	High confidence

This family

US 8,638,976	In force Feb 2029	Feb 2029
US 9,451,344	In force Apr 2028	Apr 2028
US 10,560,770	this patent Jul 2027	Jul 2027
US 10,932,025	In force Jul 2027	Jul 2027
US 11,617,032	In force Sep 2027	Sep 2027
US 12,538,059	In force Jul 2027	Jul 2027
Application 19/438,760	Pending not computed	not computed

7 of 8 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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What's changing

Jul 2027

Term ends Jul 31, 2027. No further fees fall due before then

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,638,976, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2020 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

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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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