Lapsed May 8, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 5, 2029
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Filed Feb 5, 2009 as application 12/322,703 · Granted May 8, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 299 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 8, 2024
2009
2029
Clock starts
Feb 5, 2009
Feb 5, 2009
No longer in force
May 8, 2024
May 8, 2024
Granted
May 8, 2012
May 8, 2012
Term would have run to
Dec 1, 2029
Dec 1, 2029
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
299
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
13
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Dec 1, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 299 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Feb 5, 2009, when this application, 12/322,703, was filed | Feb 5, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +299 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 1, 2029 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 8, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 8, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,685,093 | Term ended Sep 2021 | Sep 2021 |
| US 6,736,322 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 6,877,665 | Term ended no later than Jun 2022 | no later than Jun 2022 |
| US 7,028,906 | Term ended Sep 2021 | Sep 2021 |
| US 7,395,961 | Term ended no later than Sep 2021 | no later than Sep 2021 |
| US 7,967,211 | Term ended Sep 2021 | Sep 2021 |
| US 7,857,225 | In force Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| US 8,172,142 | this patent May 2024 | May 2024 |
8 of 13 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 11, 2009 Reel 22818, frame 61 | Gobburu, Venkata T.; Challa, Nagesh; Gannage, Michel E. | Ecrio, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 22, 2010 Reel 24272, frame 593 | Ecrio Inc. | Mobeam Inc. | Intellectual Property Transfer Agreement |
| Apr 22, 2010 Reel 24272, frame 929 | Mobeam Inc. | Ecrio Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Oct 30, 2014 Reel 34075, frame 47 | Ecrio, Inc. | Mobeam, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 9, 2017 Reel 41666, frame 987 | Mobeam Inc. | Samsung Pay, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 5, 2018 Reel 45991, frame 658 | Samsung Pay Inc. | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 299 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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