Term ended Dec 29, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 25, 2024
Filed Jun 1, 2007 as application 11/757,233 · Granted Apr 30, 2013
Base term plus 1733 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Dec 29, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Aug 25, 2004
Aug 25, 2004
Term ended
Dec 29, 2025
Dec 29, 2025
Granted
Apr 30, 2013
Apr 30, 2013
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
1,733
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 7,290,698.
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.
13
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 1733 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 25, 2004, when application 10/925,546, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 1, 2007) | Aug 25, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1733 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 24, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,290,698) | capped to Dec 29, 2025 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 29, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 09/942,255 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,290,698 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,054,854 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 7,692,635 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2006/000876 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,430,299 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,269,718 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 8,297,892 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2016 | Oct 2016 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2015 Reel 36330, frame 420 | Sony Electronics Inc. | Sony Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 15, 2019 Reel 48974, frame 222 | Sony Corporation | Saturn Licensing LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 19, 2025 Reel 71157, frame 363 | Saturn Licensing LLC | InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 1733 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 7,290,698.
Citations
62
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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