Term ends Oct 23, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 17, 2026
Held by Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Filed Aug 15, 2006 as application 11/504,086 · Granted Sep 18, 2012
Base term plus 1650 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2030
Clock starts
Apr 17, 2006
Apr 17, 2006
Term ends
Oct 23, 2030
Oct 23, 2030
Granted
Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
1,650
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.
10
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 1650 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 Apr 17, 2006, when application 11/404,871, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 15, 2006) | Apr 17, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1650 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 23, 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 | Oct 23, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,870,655 | In force Jan 2030 | Jan 2030 |
| US 8,267,786 | this patent Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 8,834,271 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 9,227,142 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 9,044,671 | Term ended no later than Apr 2026 | no later than Apr 2026 |
| US 9,533,220 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 9,227,138 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 9,498,709 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2006 Reel 18202, frame 994 | Ikeda, Akio | Nintendo Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2030
Term ends Oct 23, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1650 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
210
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
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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.