Term ended Nov 10, 2026 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Ak Globaltech Corp.

Filed Jul 8, 2024 as application 18/766,552 · Granted Jan 13, 2026

Base term plus 44 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Nov 10, 2026

2006 2026

Clock starts
Sep 27, 2006

Term ended
Nov 10, 2026

Granted
Jan 13, 2026

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

None due

Maintenance fees

This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.

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 44 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Sep 27, 2006, when application 11/528,979, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 8, 2024); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Sep 27, 2026	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	+44 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Nov 10, 2026	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	No maintenance fee can end the term early	term ended	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Nov 10, 2026	Medium confidence

This family

US 7,841,224	In force Oct 2027	Oct 2027
US 8,250,900	Term ended Sep 2026	Sep 2026
US 9,103,818	Term ended Sep 2026	Sep 2026
US 9,562,890	Term ended Sep 2026	Sep 2026
US 10,488,399	Term ended Sep 2026	Sep 2026
US 11,150,235	Term ended Sep 2026	Sep 2026
US 11,619,626	Term ended Sep 2026	Sep 2026
US 12,523,645	this patent Nov 2026	Nov 2026

8 of 9 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
Jul 15, 2024 Reel 67992, frame 571	Son, Matthew Hogyun	Ak Globaltech Corp.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

What's changing

Note

The 44 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

We have no citation count for this patent yet. That is not the same as never having been cited.

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.

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