Also listed on Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc., 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 Oct 6, 2025
Held by MOSAID Technologies Incorporated
Filed Apr 5, 2007 as application 11/664,683 · Granted Mar 16, 2010
Base term plus 412 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2026
Clock starts
Oct 6, 2005
Oct 6, 2005
Term ends
Nov 22, 2026
Nov 22, 2026
Granted
Mar 16, 2010
Mar 16, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
412
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 412 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 Oct 6, 2005, when application PCT/JP2005/018534, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 5, 2007) | Oct 6, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +412 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 7,677,076 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2008 Reel 20748, frame 248 | Takeno, Shoichi | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 14, 2008 Reel 21835, frame 446 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. | Panasonic Corporation | Change of Name |
| May 10, 2018 Reel 45773, frame 387 | Panasonic Corporation | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 22, 2018 Reel 46900, frame 136 | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Cppib Credit Investments, Inc. | Amended and Restated U.S. Patent Security Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors) |
| Nov 6, 2020 Reel 54344, frame 143 | Cppib Credit Investments Inc. | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 3, 2021 Reel 58794, frame 701 | Conversant Intellectual Property Inc. | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Change of Name |
| Aug 7, 2023 Reel 64689, frame 57 | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Conveying Party's Name from Conversant Intellectual Property Inc. to Conversant Intellectual Propert Management Inc. Previously Recorded at Reel: Frame: . Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Change of Name. |
| Aug 14, 2023 Reel 64584, frame 672 | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Conveying Party's Name Previously Recorded on Reel 058794 Frame 0701. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Change of Name. |
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 412 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2010 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.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.