Lapsed Aug 7, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Gingy Technology Inc.

Filed Sep 24, 2017 as application 15/713,693 · Granted Aug 7, 2018

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Aug 7, 2026

2015 2035

Clock starts
Aug 25, 2015

No longer in force
Aug 7, 2026

Granted
Aug 7, 2018

Term would have run to
Aug 25, 2035

base term after the term ends fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 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.

1 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 Aug 25, 2035: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Aug 25, 2015, when application 14/835,130, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 24, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Aug 25, 2035	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	None on record	no cap applied	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Aug 7, 2026	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Aug 7, 2026	Medium confidence

This family

Application 14/835,130	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 9,770,199	Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2025	Sep 2025
US 9,977,947	Lapsed on the fee record May 2026	May 2026
US 10,049,256	Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026	Aug 2026
US 10,356,296	Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023	Jul 2023
US 10,043,847	this patent Aug 2026	Aug 2026
US 10,713,521	Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2024	Jul 2024
US 9,964,436	Lapsed on the fee record May 2026	May 2026

8 of 21 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
Sep 24, 2017 Reel 43675, frame 682	You, Kuo-liang; Wu, Jen-chieh	Gingy Technology Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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