Also listed on Idefend Ltd., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 29, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 29, 2029
Held by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Filed Apr 4, 2016 as application 15/089,985 · Granted Jul 18, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Oct 29, 2009
Oct 29, 2009
Term ends
Oct 29, 2029
Oct 29, 2029
Granted
Jul 18, 2017
Jul 18, 2017
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,311,466, to Oct 29, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Oct 29, 2009, when application 12/608,190, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 4, 2016) | Oct 29, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,311,466) | resolves to Oct 29, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 29, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,185,646 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 9,311,466 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 9,712,526 | this patent Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2016 Reel 38185, frame 173 | Headley, Paul | Veritrix, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 4, 2016 Reel 38185, frame 286 | Veritrix, Inc. | K.Y. Trix Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 1, 2016 Reel 40542, frame 863 | K.Y. Trix Ltd. | Idefend Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Dec 11, 2017 Reel 44823, frame 755 | Liventa Bioscience, Inc. | Nutech Medical, Inc. | Court Order |
| Aug 29, 2018 Reel 46748, frame 49 | Idefend Ltd. | Francine Cani 2002 Living Trust | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 2, 2019 Reel 51155, frame 304 | Idefend Ltd. | Francine Gani 2002 Living Trust | Corrective Assignment to Correct the to Correct the Receiving Party Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 046778 Frame: 0049. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Jul 22, 2020 Reel 53275, frame 792 | Francine Gani 2002 Living Trust | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2029
Term ends Oct 29, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,311,466, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
11
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 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.