Lapsed Mar 28, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 1, 2033
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Fujitsu Component Limited and NTT Facilities, Inc.
Filed Mar 25, 2015 as application 14/430,951 · Granted Mar 28, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Mar 28, 2025
2013
2033
Clock starts
Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013
No longer in force
Mar 28, 2025
Mar 28, 2025
Granted
Mar 28, 2017
Mar 28, 2017
Term would have run to
Oct 1, 2033
Oct 1, 2033
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
47
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 Oct 1, 2033: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 1, 2013, when application PCT/JP2013/076734, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 25, 2015) | Oct 1, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 28, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 28, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,793,079 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| US 9,607,793 | this patent Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 9,583,293 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2021 | Feb 2021 |
| US 9,634,443 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| US 9,281,640 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
| US 9,368,892 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2020 | Jun 2020 |
| US 9,645,318 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2021 | May 2021 |
| US 9,887,480 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
8 of 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Hirose, Keiichi; Noritake, Masatoshi; Beak, Seungseok; Kiryu, Koichi; Yuba, Takashi | Fujitsu Component Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 25, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Hirose, Keiichi; Noritake, Masatoshi; Beak, Seungseok; Kiryu, Koichi; Yuba, Takashi | NTT Facilities, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 25, 2015 Reel 35251, frame 510 | Beak, Seungseok; Kiryu, Koichi; Yuba, Takashi; Noritake, Masatoshi; Hirose, Keiichi | Fujitsu Component Limited; NTT Facilities, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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