Term ends no later than Feb 14, 2034 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Held by Alpine Electronics of Silicon Valley, Inc.

Filed Aug 4, 2017 as application 15/669,823 · Granted Feb 11, 2020

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Ends no later than Feb 14, 2034

2014 2034

Clock starts
Feb 14, 2014

Ends no later than
Feb 14, 2034

Granted
Feb 11, 2020

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.

Unresolved

Terminal disclaimer

On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.

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.

This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Feb 14, 2014, when application 14/181,512, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 4, 2017)	Feb 14, 2034	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved	no cap applied, and none guessed	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	no later than Feb 14, 2034	Medium confidence

This family

US 8,767,996	In force Feb 2034	Feb 2034
US 8,892,233	In force Feb 2034	Feb 2034
US 8,977,376	In force Feb 2034	Feb 2034
US 9,729,985	In force Aug 2034	Aug 2034
US 10,560,792	this patent no later than Feb 2034	no later than Feb 2034
US 10,986,454	In force Feb 2034	Feb 2034
US 11,395,078	In force Feb 2034	Feb 2034
US 11,729,565	In force Feb 2034	Feb 2034

8 of 12 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
Aug 4, 2017 Reel 43455, frame 583	Lin, Rocky Chau-hsiung; Yamasaki, Thomas	Alpine Electronics of Silicon Valley, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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What's changing

Feb 2034

Term ends no later than Feb 14, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed

Open question

A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Feb 14, 2034. We will not guess the cap.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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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

This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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