Lapsed Apr 25, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Fujitsu Component Limited

Filed Apr 22, 2015 as application 14/693,237 · Granted Apr 25, 2017

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Apr 25, 2021

2015 2035

Clock starts
Apr 22, 2015

No longer in force
Apr 25, 2021

Granted
Apr 25, 2017

Term would have run to
Apr 22, 2035

base term after the term ends 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.

0 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.

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 Apr 22, 2035: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 22, 2015, when this application, 14/693,237, was filed	Apr 22, 2035	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	0 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Apr 25, 2021	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Apr 25, 2021	High confidence

This family

US 9,793,079	Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021	Oct 2021
US 9,607,793	Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2025	Mar 2025
US 9,583,293	Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2021	Feb 2021
US 9,634,443	this patent 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
Apr 22, 2015 Reel 35472, frame 102	Kondo, Takahiro; Sato, Koki; Kobayashi, Mitsuru	Fujitsu Component Limited	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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Citations

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