Term ended Jul 3, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 14, 2025
Held by Optronic Sciences LLC
Filed Apr 8, 2009 as application 12/385,441 · Granted Jun 5, 2012
Base term plus 535 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 3, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jan 14, 2005
Jan 14, 2005
Term ended
Jul 3, 2026
Jul 3, 2026
Granted
Jun 5, 2012
Jun 5, 2012
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
535
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,483,006, to Jul 3, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
5
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 535 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Jan 14, 2005, when application 11/034,858, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 8, 2009) | Jan 14, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +535 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 3, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,483,006) | resolves to Jul 3, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 3, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,483,006 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,199,096 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,203,517 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 8,194,017 | this patent Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 8,199,097 | Term ended no later than May 2026 | no later than May 2026 |
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 8, 2009 Reel 22577, frame 882 | Wang, Chih-sung; Yang, Chih-hsiang; Lu, Chao-liang | AU Optronics Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 25, 2023 Reel 63785, frame 830 | AU Optronics Corporation | Auo Corporation | Change of Name |
| Aug 21, 2023 Reel 64658, frame 572 | Auo Corporation | Optronic Sciences LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
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
Note
The 535 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,483,006, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median 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.