Also listed on Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Nov 22, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 14, 2025
Held by Trivale Technologies
Filed Jun 14, 2005 as application 11/151,533 · Granted May 19, 2009
Base term plus 526 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jun 14, 2005
Jun 14, 2005
Term ends
Nov 22, 2026
Nov 22, 2026
Granted
May 19, 2009
May 19, 2009
base term
patent term adjustment
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
526
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.
18
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 526 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jun 14, 2005, when this application, 11/151,533, was filed | Jun 14, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +526 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 22, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 22, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,102,294 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2010 | Sep 2010 |
| Application 11/028,732 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,101,793 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2018 | Sep 2018 |
| US 7,176,744 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 7,436,672 | Term ended Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 7,535,522 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,812,402 | In force Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| US 7,244,969 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
8 of 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2005 Reel 16687, frame 224 | Watanabe, Kenichi; Masutani, Yuichi; Noumi, Shigeaki; Morishita, Hitoshi; Ueda, Hiroshi | Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 15, 2021 Reel 57651, frame 234 | Mitsubishi Electric Corporation | Trivale Technologies | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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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
Nov 2026
Term ends Nov 22, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 526 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
10
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2009 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.