Term ended Jun 3, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 5, 2023
Held by Littelfuse, Inc.
Filed May 5, 2003 as application 10/430,818 · Granted Feb 28, 2006
Base term plus 29 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jun 3, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
May 5, 2003
May 5, 2003
Term ended
Jun 3, 2023
Jun 3, 2023
Granted
Feb 28, 2006
Feb 28, 2006
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
29
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
10
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 29 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 May 5, 2003, when this application, 10/430,818, was filed | May 5, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +29 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 3, 2023 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 3, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,771,056 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 6,670,216 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 6,759,692 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 6,638,808 | Term ended Jan 2023 | Jan 2023 |
| US 7,071,537 | Term ended May 2023 | May 2023 |
| US 7,005,734 | this patent Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 8,093,652 | Term ended Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| US 7,063,975 | Term ended Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 2005 Reel 17308, frame 837 | Choi, Kang Rim; Zommer, Nathan | Ixys Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 31, 2018 Reel 45406, frame 600 | Ixys Corporation; Ixys, LLC | Ixys, LLC | Merger and Change of Name |
| May 1, 2019 Reel 49056, frame 649 | Ixys, LLC | Littelfuse, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 29 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
33
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2006 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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