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Patent Term and Related Applications for US 8,704,762

As of May 13, 2026, the following details pertain to the patent term and application history for U.S. Patent No. 8,704,762.

Patent Term

• Filing Date: June 2, 2011
• Standard 20-Year Term: The patent term would normally expire on June 2, 2031, which is 20 years from its earliest non-provisional filing date.
• Patent Term Adjustment (PTA): The USPTO has granted a Patent Term Adjustment of 231 days due to administrative delays during the prosecution of the patent application. This adjustment extends the patent's enforceability.
• Patent Term Extension (PTE): There are no Patent Term Extensions for this patent. PTE is typically granted for delays related to regulatory review (e.g., by the FDA) and is not applicable here.
• Projected Expiration Date: After applying the 231-day PTA, the calculated expiration date for US 8,704,762 is January 19, 2032.

Related Applications and Patent Family

The invention disclosed in US 8,704,762 is part of a larger family of patents that stem from the original application (13/151,362). The inventors pursued additional patents through continuation applications, which build upon the parent disclosure.

• Parent Application:

  • Application No.: 13/151,362
  • Filed: June 2, 2011
  • Status: Patented as US 8,704,762

• Continuation Applications (Child Patents):

  • US Patent 9,274,631 (Application No. 14/254,926): This is a continuation of the application for the '762 patent. It was filed on April 17, 2014, and issued on March 1, 2016. It shares the same priority date and will expire on the same date as the parent '762 patent: January 19, 2032.
  • US Patent 9,507,477 (Application No. 15/005,737): This is a continuation of the application for the '631 patent. It was filed on January 25, 2016, and issued on November 29, 2016. It also shares the same priority date and will expire on January 19, 2032.
  • US Patent 9,740,071 (Application No. 15/294,844): This is a continuation of the application for the '477 patent. It was filed on October 17, 2016, and issued on August 22, 2017. As part of the same family, it shares the same priority date and will also expire on January 19, 2032.

This series of continuation patents indicates a strategy by the original assignee to build a portfolio around the core invention, with each subsequent patent potentially covering different aspects or embodiments of the display device inspection technology. All patents in this family are linked by their common priority claim to the initial 2011 application and therefore share the same expiration date.