Term ends Oct 11, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 10, 2030
Held by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Filed Jan 11, 2017 as application 15/403,759 · Granted Feb 11, 2020
Base term plus 396 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2031
Clock starts
Sep 10, 2010
Sep 10, 2010
Term ends
Oct 11, 2031
Oct 11, 2031
Granted
Feb 11, 2020
Feb 11, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
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
396
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,558,860, to Oct 11, 2031. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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 396 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is 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 Sep 10, 2010, when application 12/807,635, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 11, 2017) | Sep 10, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +396 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 11, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,558,860) | resolves to Oct 11, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 11, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,558,860 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 10,559,811 | this patent Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 11,631,838 | In force Aug 2031 | Aug 2031 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2031
Term ends Oct 11, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 396 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,558,860, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
11
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2020 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.