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Image Sensor with a Gated Storage Node Linked to Transfer Gate

US 10,032,825 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ended Aug 11, 2025 · High confidence

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Aug 31, 2026.

Filed Jun 18, 2013 as application 13/920,677 · Granted Jul 24, 2018
Base term plus 624 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Aug 11, 2025
2003 2026
Clock starts
Nov 26, 2003
Term ended
Aug 11, 2025
Granted
Jul 24, 2018
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
624
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
6
Family applications on record here
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This patent's term runs 624 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 26, 2003, when application 10/721,191, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 18, 2013)Nov 26, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+624 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 11, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 1 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
USPTO status recordRecorded as expired for non-payment on Aug 31, 2026, after the term endedno changeHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 11, 2025High confidence

This family

US 7,443,437In force
Nov 2026
Nov 2026
US 8,081,249Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2023
Dec 2023
US 8,471,938Term ended
no later than Nov 2023
no later than Nov 2023
US 10,032,825this patent
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
US 10,566,379Term ended
Nov 2023
Nov 2023
US 11,282,891Term ended
Feb 2024
Feb 2024
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Mar 17, 2016
Reel 38144, frame 969
Micron Technology, Inc.Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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