Also listed on Solution Champion Limited, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 3, 2025 (Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch).
Term ends Jan 5, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 24, 2025
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 7,922,587), so the cap could be lower.
Held by IGT
Filed Oct 31, 2007 as application 11/931,611 · Granted May 22, 2012
Base term plus 830 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Jan 24, 2005
Jan 24, 2005
Term ends
Jan 5, 2027
Jan 5, 2027
Granted
May 22, 2012
May 22, 2012
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
830
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 7,922,587.
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.
26
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 830 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: Medium. 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 Jan 24, 2005, when application 11/042,732, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 31, 2007) | Jan 24, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +830 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 4, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,922,587) | capped to Jan 5, 2027 | Medium 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 | Jan 5, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,918,723 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| Application 11/198,218 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,914,368 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 7,922,587 | In force no later than Jan 2027 | no later than Jan 2027 |
| US 8,308,559 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 8,323,105 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 8,210,920 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 8,182,321 | this patent Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
8 of 26 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 26, 2013 Reel 30687, frame 49 | Chun, Jay | Solution Champion Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 18, 2016 Reel 38747, frame 719 | Fresh Idea Global Limited; Solution Champion Limited; LT Game Limited | IGT | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 3, 2025 Reel 71817, frame 394 | IGT | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2027
Term ends Jan 5, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 830 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 7,922,587.
Citations
38
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2012 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.