Term ends Apr 24, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 29, 2029
Held by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Filed Oct 29, 2009 as application 12/608,190 · Granted May 22, 2012
Base term plus 177 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2009
2030
Clock starts
Oct 29, 2009
Oct 29, 2009
Term ends
Apr 24, 2030
Apr 24, 2030
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
177
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.
3
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 177 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 29, 2009, when this application, 12/608,190, was filed | Oct 29, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +177 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 24, 2030 | 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 | Apr 24, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,185,646 | this patent Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 9,311,466 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 9,712,526 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
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 29, 2009 Reel 23442, frame 54 | Headley, Paul | Veritrix, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 28, 2015 Reel 37367, frame 371 | Veritrix Inc. | K.Y. Trix Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 29, 2018 Reel 46980, frame 15 | K.Y. Trix Ltd. | Idefend Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Aug 29, 2018 Reel 46748, frame 49 | Idefend Ltd. | Francine Cani 2002 Living Trust | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 2, 2019 Reel 51155, frame 304 | Idefend Ltd. | Francine Gani 2002 Living Trust | Corrective Assignment to Correct the to Correct the Receiving Party Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 046778 Frame: 0049. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Feb 12, 2020 Reel 51906, frame 614 | Francine Gani 2002 Living Trust | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2030
Term ends Apr 24, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 177 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
184
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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