Also listed on Nippon Soken, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 27, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 27, 2032
Held by Denso Corporation and Nippon Soken, Inc.
Filed Jan 27, 2012 as application 13/360,476 · Granted Mar 24, 2015
Base term plus 335 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Jan 27, 2012
Jan 27, 2012
Term ends
Dec 27, 2032
Dec 27, 2032
Granted
Mar 24, 2015
Mar 24, 2015
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
335
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.
3
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 335 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
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jan 27, 2012, when this application, 13/360,476, was filed | Jan 27, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +335 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 27, 2032 | 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 | Dec 27, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,985,968 | this patent Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| US 9,945,363 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| Application 15/232,055 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 2012 Reel 27611, frame 755 | Matsumoto, Teppei; Kuroyanagi, Masatoshi; Hishinuma, Osamu | Denso Corporation; Nippon Soken, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 27, 2012 reel/frame not recorded | Hishinuma, Osamu; Kuroyanagi, Masatoshi; Matsumoto, Teppei | Denso Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 27, 2012 reel/frame not recorded | Hishinuma, Osamu; Kuroyanagi, Masatoshi; Matsumoto, Teppei | Nippon Soken, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2032
Term ends Dec 27, 2032. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 335 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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