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Data Processor for Processing Pieces of Data Being Successively Sampled at Intervals

US 7,444,228 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 28, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence

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Filed Sep 6, 2007 as application 11/896,940 · Granted Oct 28, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 28, 2020
2007 2027
Clock starts
Sep 6, 2007
No longer in force
Oct 28, 2020
Granted
Oct 28, 2008
Term would have run to
Sep 6, 2027
base term after the term ends 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.
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.
48
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Sep 6, 2027: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 6, 2007, when this application, 11/896,940, was filedSep 6, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 28, 2020High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 28, 2020High confidence

This family

US 7,449,822Term ended
Jul 2025
Jul 2025
US 7,535,733In force
Oct 2027
Oct 2027
US 7,605,110Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2013
Oct 2013
Application 11/808,977Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,567,051Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2013
Jul 2013
US 7,783,401Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2022
Aug 2022
US 7,444,228this patent
Oct 2020
Oct 2020
US 7,893,604In force
Jul 2028
Jul 2028
8 of 48 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 25, 2007
reel/frame not recorded
Nakamura, Tsutomu; Kaneko, Masayuki; Nakagawa, Hironari; Takeuchi, YoshiharuDenso CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 25, 2007
reel/frame not recorded
Nakamura, Tsutomu; Kaneko, Masayuki; Nakagawa, Hironari; Takeuchi, YoshiharuNippon Soken, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 25, 2007
Reel 20012, frame 605
Nakagawa, Hironari; Kaneko, Masayuki; Takeuchi, Yoshiharu; Nakamura, TsutomuDenso Corporation; Nippon Soken, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

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