Lapsed Oct 2, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 30, 2024
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Socionext Inc.
Filed Dec 30, 2004 as application 11/024,470 · Granted Oct 2, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 302 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 2, 2019
2004
2026
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2004
Dec 30, 2004
No longer in force
Oct 2, 2019
Oct 2, 2019
Granted
Oct 2, 2007
Oct 2, 2007
Term would have run to
Oct 28, 2025
Oct 28, 2025
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
302
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
Its term would have run to Oct 28, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 302 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Dec 30, 2004, when this application, 11/024,470, was filed | Dec 30, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +302 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 28, 2025 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 2, 2019 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 2, 2019 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,148,135 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2018 | Dec 2018 |
| US 6,991,951 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2014 | Jan 2014 |
| US 7,463,767 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 7,358,475 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 |
| US 6,999,367 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 7,460,108 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 7,227,202 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 7,278,124 | this patent Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2007 Reel 19791, frame 92 | Shimazaki, Kenji; Sato, Kazuhiro; Ichinomiya, Takahiro; Hirano, Shozo; Takahashi, Masao; Tsujikawa, Hiroyuki; Kojima, Seijiro | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 25, 2015 Reel 35294, frame 942 | Panasonic Corporation | Socionext Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 302 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2007 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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