Term ended May 26, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 14, 2024
Held by Optronic Sciences LLC
Filed Oct 14, 2004 as application 10/963,800 · Granted Nov 6, 2007
Base term plus 224 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 26, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Oct 14, 2004
Oct 14, 2004
Term ended
May 26, 2025
May 26, 2025
Granted
Nov 6, 2007
Nov 6, 2007
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
224
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.
5
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 224 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 Oct 14, 2004, when this application, 10/963,800, was filed | Oct 14, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +224 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 26, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 26, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,292,288 | this patent May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 7,936,408 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 7,898,608 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 7,889,285 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 8,334,939 | Term ended Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2004 Reel 15897, frame 531 | Kawasaki, Kiyohiro | Quanta Display Japan Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 29, 2007 Reel 19093, frame 136 | Quanta Display, Inc. | AU Optronics Corporation | Merger |
| May 25, 2023 Reel 63785, frame 830 | AU Optronics Corporation | Auo Corporation | Change of Name |
| Aug 21, 2023 Reel 64658, frame 572 | Auo Corporation | Optronic Sciences LLC | 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 224 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 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.