Term ended Oct 15, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 24, 2024
Held by Ledvance GmbH
Filed Mar 24, 2004 as application 10/807,161 · Granted Jul 18, 2006
Base term plus 205 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 15, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Mar 24, 2004
Mar 24, 2004
Term ended
Oct 15, 2024
Oct 15, 2024
Granted
Jul 18, 2006
Jul 18, 2006
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
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
205
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.
2
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 205 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 Mar 24, 2004, when this application, 10/807,161, was filed | Mar 24, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +205 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 15, 2024 | 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 | Oct 15, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,078,735 | this patent Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 7,932,527 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 2004 Reel 15153, frame 90 | Shono, Masayuki; Hata, Masayuki | Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 30, 2012 Reel 27957, frame 258 | Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. | Future Light, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 1, 2016 Reel 40523, frame 797 | Future Light Limited Liability Company | Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 20, 2017 Reel 41652, frame 122 | Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. | Epistar Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 6, 2023 Reel 65469, frame 5 | Epistar Corporation | Ledvance GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Note
The 205 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
40
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
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.