Term ends Nov 4, 2028 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 23, 2028
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Filed May 27, 2016 as application 15/167,313 · Granted Aug 11, 2020
Base term plus 226 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Mar 23, 2008
Mar 23, 2008
Term ends
Nov 4, 2028
Nov 4, 2028
Granted
Aug 11, 2020
Aug 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
226
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 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.
26
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 226 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Mar 23, 2008, when application PCT/IL2008/000401, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 27, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 23, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +226 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 4, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | 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 | Nov 4, 2028 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,090,550 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 8,749,097 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 8,441,364 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| US 9,136,734 | In force no later than Feb 2029 | no later than Feb 2029 |
| US 8,626,461 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 9,412,512 | In force Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| US 8,965,720 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 9,048,696 | In force no later than Dec 2028 | no later than Dec 2028 |
8 of 26 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2016 Reel 38774, frame 805 | Azancot, Yossi; Greenwald, Oola; Rofe, Arik; Ben-shalom, Amir | Powermat Technologies, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 19, 2020 Reel 52165, frame 708 | Powermat Technologies Ltd. | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2028
Term ends Nov 4, 2028. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 226 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
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
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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.