Term ends Apr 30, 2037 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 21, 2036
Held by Max Co., Ltd.
Filed Apr 5, 2024 as application 18/628,017 · Granted Aug 25, 2026
Base term plus 313 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Jul 21, 2016
Jul 21, 2016
Term ends
Apr 30, 2037
Apr 30, 2037
Granted
Aug 25, 2026
Aug 25, 2026
base term
patent term adjustment
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
313
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 10,787,828.
0 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.
5
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 313 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Jul 21, 2016, when application PCT/JP2016/071441, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 5, 2024); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jul 21, 2036 | 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 | +313 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 30, 2037 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,787,828) | capped to Apr 30, 2037 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 16916957, 16916957 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 30, 2037 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 10,738,489 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,459,778 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 11,976,480 | In force Jul 2036 | Jul 2036 |
| US 12,716,249 | this patent Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
4 of 5 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2024 Reel 67019, frame 480 | Nagaoka, Takahiro; Kasahara, Akira | Max Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Apr 2037
Term ends Apr 30, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 313 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 10,787,828.
Citations
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