Term ends Nov 25, 2026 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

Filed Jun 7, 2007 as application 11/721,072 · Granted Dec 13, 2011

Base term plus 351 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Nov 25, 2026

2005 2026

Clock starts
Dec 9, 2005

Term ends
Nov 25, 2026

Granted
Dec 13, 2011

base term patent term adjustment 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

351

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.

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 351 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Dec 9, 2005, when application PCT/JP2005/022696, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 7, 2007)	Dec 9, 2025	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+351 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Nov 25, 2026	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	None on record	no cap applied	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	3 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Nov 25, 2026	High confidence

This family

US 8,076,021

this patent

Nov 2026

1 of 2 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
Jun 7, 2007 Reel 19395, frame 891	Shimamura, Osamu; Hosaka, Kenji; Watanabe, Kyoichi; Abe, Takaaki; Kinoshita, Takuya; Horie, Hideaki; Sato, Hajime; Senbokuya, Ryouichi	Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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What's changing

Nov 2026

Term ends Nov 25, 2026. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 351 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 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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