Term ends Jul 31, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 31, 2027
Held by Pioneer Corporation
Filed Feb 24, 2023 as application 18/114,135 · Granted Jan 27, 2026
Base term plus 288 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Jul 31, 2007
Jul 31, 2007
Term ends
Jul 31, 2027
Jul 31, 2027
Granted
Jan 27, 2026
Jan 27, 2026
base term
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
288
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,932,025.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
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 runs 288 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. No maintenance fee can end this term early. 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 Feb 24, 2023) | Jul 31, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +288 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 14, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,932,025) | capped to Jul 31, 2027 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | 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 | In force 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 | this patent 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.
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What's changing
Jul 2027
Term ends Jul 31, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 288 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,932,025.
Citations
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