Also listed on Laird Technologies Korea Yh, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 23, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 1, 2027
Held by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Filed Jun 1, 2007 as application 11/806,535 · Granted May 26, 2009
Base term plus 144 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Jun 1, 2007
Jun 1, 2007
Term ends
Oct 23, 2027
Oct 23, 2027
Granted
May 26, 2009
May 26, 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
144
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 144 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 1, 2007, when this application, 11/806,535, was filed | Jun 1, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +144 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 23, 2027 | 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 | Oct 23, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,536,751 | this patent Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
| Application 12/472,182 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 19, 2007 Reel 19986, frame 636 | Kim, Chang Soo | M2SYS Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 3, 2008 Reel 21035, frame 125 | M2SYS Co., Ltd. | Laird Technologies Map Co., Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Sep 3, 2009 Reel 23192, frame 293 | Laird Technologies Map Co., Ltd. | Laird Technologies Korea Yh | Change of Name |
| Aug 8, 2013 Reel 30971, frame 649 | Laird Technologies Korea Yh | First Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 18, 2014 Reel 32714, frame 206 | First Technologies, LLC | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2027
Term ends Oct 23, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 144 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
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
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