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12 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026

304 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 11 name spellings.

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Dec 2026

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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 Jul 26, 2027
The maintenance fee for Method and Device for Generating a Super-Resolution Version of a Low Resolution Input Data Structure (US 9,245,326) comes due Jul 26, 2027. Unpaid by Jan 26, 2028, it lapses early.

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14 terms have ended since Aug 16, 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 7,929,633	Method of Controlling Signal Transmission in Multi-Input/Multi-Output System In force Term ends Dec 1, 2026 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Dec 1, 2026	High confidence
US 7,796,703	Method of Processing Received Signals in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) System In force Term ends Feb 2, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Feb 2, 2027	High confidence
US 7,844,992	Video on Demand Server System and Method In force Term ends Feb 5, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Feb 5, 2027	High confidence
US 7,808,556	Image Processing Device In force Term ends Mar 8, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Mar 8, 2027	High confidence
US 7,961,646	Multicast Mesh Routing Protocol In force Term ends May 16, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends May 16, 2027	High confidence
US 8,112,091	Allocating Radio Resources in Mobile Communications System In force Term ends Jan 7, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jan 7, 2028	High confidence
US 8,285,992	Method and Apparatuses for Secure, Anonymous Wireless Lan (WLAN) Access In force Term ends May 11, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends May 11, 2028	High confidence
US 8,326,125	Method and Device for Linking Multimedia Data In force Term ends Oct 6, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Oct 6, 2028	High confidence
US 8,085,846	Method and Apparatus for Decoding Hybrid Intra-Inter Coded Blocks In force Term ends Nov 18, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 18, 2028	High confidence
US 9,245,326	Method and Device for Generating a Super-Resolution Version of a Low Resolution Input Data Structure In force Term ends Jan 11, 2033 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jan 11, 2033	High confidence

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Sources and methods

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Published applications

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