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US 7,580,047 Term ended
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Term ended Sep 13, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Jun 30, 2005 as application 11/171,496 · Granted Aug 25, 2009
Base term plus 454 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Sep 13, 2026
2005 2026
Clock starts
Jun 16, 2005
Term ended
Sep 13, 2026
Granted
Aug 25, 2009
base term patent term adjustment 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
454
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
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 454 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 16, 2005, when application 11/154,984, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 30, 2005)Jun 16, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+454 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 13, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 13, 2026High confidence

This family

US 7,545,396Term ended
Aug 2026
Aug 2026
US 7,692,671In force
Jan 2029
Jan 2029
US 7,580,049In force
no later than Jun 2027
no later than Jun 2027
US 7,605,831In force
no later than May 2027
no later than May 2027
US 7,580,048In force
no later than Jun 2027
no later than Jun 2027
US 7,580,047this patent
Sep 2026
Sep 2026
Application PCT/US2006/020096PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,339,428Term ended
Sep 2026
Sep 2026
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
Sep 16, 2005
Reel 16994, frame 212
Ng, Sunny Yat-sanAurora Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 16, 2011
Reel 25810, frame 149
Aurora Systems, Inc.OmniVision Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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