Extensions — US Patent 7482916

Patent Term and Status for U.S. Patent No. 7,482,916

Patent Term Adjustments (PTA) / Patent Term Extensions (PTE):
A review of the prosecution history and status for U.S. Patent No. 7,482,916 indicates no Patent Term Adjustments or Extensions were granted. The patent's term was not extended beyond the standard 20-year period.

Continuity Data:
U.S. Patent No. 7,482,916 is the parent patent in a large family of continuing applications. This indicates a strategy to protect evolving aspects of the automatic signaling technology over time. Each of the following patents claims priority back to the '916 patent's application:

U.S. Patent No. 7,986,223: Issued from continuation application US12/360,081.
U.S. Patent No. 8,378,805: Issued from continuation application US13/191,404.
U.S. Patent No. 9,248,777: Issued from continuation application US13/770,970.
U.S. Patent No. 9,505,343: Issued from continuation application US15/009,383.
U.S. Patent No. 10,046,696: Issued from continuation application US15/348,766.
U.S. Patent No. 10,293,743: Issued from continuation application US16/101,306.
U.S. Patent No. 10,569,700: Issued from continuation application US16/417,628.
U.S. Patent No. 11,897,388: Issued from continuation application US16/785,246.

No divisional applications were filed; all related patents are continuations.

Patent Family:
The patent family for U.S. Patent No. 7,482,916 consists of the parent patent and the eight subsequent continuation patents listed above. No foreign counterparts or applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) were identified.

Projected Expiration Date:
The term for a U.S. utility patent is 20 years from the earliest non-provisional filing date.

Filing Date: January 28, 2005
Calculated Expiration: January 28, 2025

Based on this calculation, and confirmed by the "Expired - Lifetime" legal status provided in the patent's data, U.S. Patent No. 7,482,916 expired on January 28, 2025. Therefore, as of today's date, May 1, 2026, the patent is no longer in force.