Term ends Apr 20, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 20, 2027
Held by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Filed Apr 20, 2007 as application 11/788,711 · Granted Jan 4, 2011
Base term plus 478 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Apr 20, 2007
Apr 20, 2007
Term ends
Apr 20, 2027
Apr 20, 2027
Granted
Jan 4, 2011
Jan 4, 2011
base term
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
478
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,937,451.
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.
20
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 478 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Apr 20, 2007, when this application, 11/788,711, was filed | Apr 20, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +478 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 10, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,937,451) | capped to Apr 20, 2027 | 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 | Apr 20, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,865,571 | this patent Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2008/000055 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,865,572 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2009/038457 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 12/414,548 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2010/029262 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,937,451 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 8,250,172 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
8 of 20 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 20, 2007 Reel 19267, frame 28 | Ho, Edwin; Wai, King Sun | Mspot, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 7, 2014 Reel 32622, frame 641 | Mspot, Inc. | Samsung Information Systems America, Inc. | Merger |
| Dec 18, 2014 Reel 34674, frame 412 | Samsung Information Systems America, Inc. | Samsung Research America, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jan 16, 2015 Reel 34779, frame 914 | Samsung Research America, Inc. | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Apr 2027
Term ends Apr 20, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 478 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,937,451.
Citations
68
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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