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The following details pertain to US Patent 7,632,751:

Patent Term Adjustments (PTA)

Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) is granted to compensate for certain administrative delays by the USPTO during the prosecution of a utility or plant patent application. This adds time to the typical 20-year lifespan of a U.S. patent from its earliest effective filing date. The USPTO automatically determines the PTA period and issues a notice with the patent.

To determine the exact PTA for US Patent 7,632,751, one would typically consult the issue notification letter or the patent document itself, as the USPTO does not calculate expiration dates for patents but provides a calculator resource. Without direct access to the patent's official PTA calculation, a precise number cannot be provided here.

Patent Term Extensions (PTE)

Patent Term Extensions (PTE) are available for patents claiming certain human drug products, medical device products, animal drug products, veterinary biological products, and food or color additive products. This extension aims to restore some of the patent term lost during premarket government approval from a regulatory agency.

To qualify, the patent must claim the product, method of using it, or method of manufacturing it, and meet other conditions, including that the patent has not expired and its term has not been previously extended under the relevant section. As US Patent 7,632,751 relates to semiconductor devices, it does not fall under the categories eligible for PTE (e.g., pharmaceuticals, medical devices subject to FDA approval). Therefore, it is highly unlikely to have received any patent term extensions.

Continuation Applications

US Patent 7,632,751 is listed as a divisional application. A continuation application is a second application for the same invention claimed in a prior non-provisional application, filed while the prior application is still pending. At least one inventor from the parent application must be included in the continuation application.

The provided information states that US7632751B2 is a Divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/000,904, filed Dec. 2, 2004. This parent application eventually matured into U.S. Pat. No. 7,439,623. While US7632751 is a divisional, the question asks about continuation applications of US7632751. Without further information from a direct USPTO search of the application history for US7632751 itself, it cannot be definitively stated if there are any continuation applications directly stemming from US7632751.

Divisional Applications

US Patent 7,632,751 is explicitly identified as a divisional application. It is a Divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/000,904, filed December 2, 2004. This parent application was subsequently issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,439,623. Divisional applications typically claim subject matter disclosed in the parent application but not claimed in the parent patent.

Related Family Members

Based on the provided text, the directly related family members include:

• Parent Application: U.S. application Ser. No. 11/000,904, filed Dec. 2, 2004.
• Parent Patent: U.S. Pat. No. 7,439,623, which issued from U.S. application Ser. No. 11/000,904.
• Priority Application: Japanese Patent Application No. 2003-404437, filed on Dec. 2, 2003.

The patent also lists "Other versions" on Google Patents as US20090045522A1, which would be the published application for US7632751. It also mentions "Priority to US12/607,697" and "Priority to US13/104,484", which correspond to patents US7964969B2 and US8334597B2 respectively. These indicate further related patent family members.

Projected Expiration Date

The "Info" section of the provided patent text from Google Patents states that the legal status is "Expired - Lifetime" and that the "Anticipated expiration" date was 2024-12-02.

Given that the patent was filed on September 30, 2008, and typically, a U.S. utility patent has a term of 20 years from its earliest effective filing date (which would be December 2, 2003, based on its priority to the Japanese application), the normal expiration date would be December 2, 2023.

The "Anticipated expiration 2024-12-02" suggests that there may have been a Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) granted, extending the term by approximately one year. Since the current date is April 26, 2026, and the anticipated expiration date was December 2, 2024, the patent is already expired.