Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

56 patents currently held · Updated Nov 15, 2026

40 more in force are now held by other companies

Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.

Recorded under 4 name spellings.

Ending by 2030

Jun 2027

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Fee deadlines

Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.

1 fee due Dec 18, 2026
The maintenance fee for Machine Vision for Ego-Motion, Segmenting, and Classifying Objects (US 10,325,376) comes due Dec 18, 2026. Unpaid by Jun 21, 2027, it lapses early.
1 fee due Jan 25, 2027
The maintenance fee for Systems and methods for machine perception (US 11,709,236) comes due Jan 25, 2027. Unpaid by Jul 26, 2027, it lapses early.
3 fees due Feb 1 to 13, 2027 · next Feb 1
1 fee due Mar 22, 2027
The maintenance fee for Parallel Memory Error Detection and Correction (US 9,141,473) comes due Mar 22, 2027. Unpaid by Sep 22, 2027, it lapses early.
2 fees due Apr 15 to 22, 2027 · next Apr 15
1 fee due May 12, 2027
The maintenance fee for Scan Mirror Systems and Methods (US 10,473,921) comes due May 12, 2027. Unpaid by Nov 12, 2027, it lapses early.
1 fee due Jun 10, 2027
The maintenance fee for Real Time Position Sensing of Objects (US 10,502,815) comes due Jun 10, 2027. Unpaid by Dec 10, 2027, it lapses early.
1 fee due Aug 18, 2027
The maintenance fee for Systems and Methods for Machine Perception (US 10,564,284) comes due Aug 18, 2027. Unpaid by Feb 18, 2028, it lapses early.
1 fee due Sep 17, 2027
The maintenance fee for Methods and Systems for Navigating a Vehicle Including a Novel Fiducial Marker System (US 10,591,605) comes due Sep 17, 2027. Unpaid by Mar 17, 2028, it lapses early.

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Recent changes

6 terms have ended since Aug 17, 2026

Patents held now

Soonest term end first. Each date below is computed on that patent's own page, which shows the rule, the adjustments and the fee history it was derived from.

Patent	Title	Status	Expires	Confidence
US 8,213,221	Magnetic shielding in magnetic multilayer structures In force Term ends Jun 27, 2027 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jun 27, 2027	From the USPTO record
US 8,476,723	Magnetic Element Having Low Saturation Magnetization In force Term ends Nov 1, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 1, 2027	High confidence
US 7,777,261	Magnetic device having stabilized free ferromagnetic layer In force Term ends Jan 15, 2028 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jan 15, 2028	From the USPTO record
US 7,742,328	Method and system for providing spin transfer tunneling magnetic memories utilizing non-planar transistors In force Term ends Jan 18, 2028 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jan 18, 2028	From the USPTO record
US 7,760,474	Magnetic element utilizing free layer engineering In force Term ends Oct 4, 2028 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Oct 4, 2028	From the USPTO record
US 7,894,248	Programmable and redundant circuitry based on magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) In force Term ends Nov 1, 2028 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Nov 1, 2028	From the USPTO record
US 7,851,840	Devices and circuits based on magnetic tunnel junctions utilizing a multilayer barrier In force Term ends Feb 20, 2029 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Feb 20, 2029	From the USPTO record
US 7,973,349	Magnetic device having multilayered free ferromagnetic layer In force Term ends Apr 23, 2029 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Apr 23, 2029	From the USPTO record
US 8,283,186	Magnetic memory device and method for manufacturing the same In force Term ends Jun 29, 2029 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jun 29, 2029	From the USPTO record
US 7,888,755	Magnetic storage device with intermediate layers having different sheet resistivities In force Term ends Jul 4, 2029 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jul 4, 2029	From the USPTO record

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Sources and methods

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