Term ends Oct 23, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 16, 2029
Filed Jul 17, 2009 as application 12/505,283 · Granted Jun 3, 2014
Base term plus 1010 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2009
2031
Clock starts
Jan 16, 2009
Jan 16, 2009
Term ends
Oct 23, 2031
Oct 23, 2031
Granted
Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014
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
1,010
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.
4
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 1010 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 Jan 16, 2009, when application PCT/JP2009/050566, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 17, 2009) | Jan 16, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1010 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 23, 2031 | 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 | Oct 23, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,741,958 | this patent Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 8,217,192 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2020 | Jul 2020 |
| US 9,486,395 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2020 | Nov 2020 |
3 of 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2009 Reel 23268, frame 642 | Ujihara, Hideo; Yagi, Kenji; Mei, Jennifer B.; Green, Carter B.; Mankoo, Amrit S. | Takasago International Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 23, 2009 Reel 23270, frame 141 | Tanaka, Shigeru; Lankin, Michael E.; Ishida, Kenya; Lombardo, Louis | Takasago International Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 21, 2014 Reel 33579, frame 489 | Tartaglia, Jennifer B. | Takasago International Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2031
Term ends Oct 23, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1010 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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