Term ends Mar 9, 2031 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 9, 2031
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
Filed Mar 9, 2016 as application 15/064,686 · Granted Feb 20, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Mar 9, 2011
Mar 9, 2011
Term ends
Mar 9, 2031
Mar 9, 2031
Granted
Feb 20, 2018
Feb 20, 2018
base term
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,963,246, to Mar 9, 2031. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Mar 9, 2011, when application PCT/JP2011/055546, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 9, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 9, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,963,246) | resolves to Mar 9, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 9, 2031 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,963,246 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 9,318,391 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 9,899,448 | this patent Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 10,622,263 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
4 of 5 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 9, 2016 Reel 37928, frame 649 | Arai, Yasuo; Okihara, Masao; Kasai, Hiroki | Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 6, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization; Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. | Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. | To Correct an Error in the Previously Recorded Assignment |
| Oct 6, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization; Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. | Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization | To Correct an Error in the Previously Recorded Assignment |
| Oct 6, 2016 Reel 40247, frame 181 | Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.; Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization | Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.; Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization | To Correct an Error in the Previously Recorded Assignment |
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What's changing
Mar 2031
Term ends Mar 9, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,963,246, 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 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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