Term ends Feb 13, 2037 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 18, 2037
Held by Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation
Filed May 11, 2018 as application 15/976,990 · Granted Jun 23, 2020
Base term plus 68 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Jan 18, 2017
Jan 18, 2017
Term ends
Feb 13, 2037
Feb 13, 2037
Granted
Jun 23, 2020
Jun 23, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
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
68
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,042,359.
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.
8
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 runs 68 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Jan 18, 2017, when application 15/409,220, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 11, 2018); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 18, 2037 | 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 | +68 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 27, 2037 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,042,359) | capped to Feb 13, 2037 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 15409220, 15409220 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 13, 2037 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 10,065,517 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 10,042,359 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 10,691,126 | this patent Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 10,828,999 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,513,521 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,920,938 | In force no later than Jun 2038 | no later than Jun 2038 |
| Application 17/950,613 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 17/972,935 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2018 Reel 45799, frame 432 | Konrardy, Blake; Christensen, Scott T.; Hayward, Gregory; Farris, Scott | State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 22, 2022 Reel 62190, frame 37 | State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company | Hyundai; Kia | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 22, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company | Hyundai | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 22, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company | Kia | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 6, 2023 Reel 62290, frame 655 | Hyundai; Kia | Hyundai Motor Company; Kia Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 6, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Hyundai; Kia | Hyundai Motor Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 6, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Hyundai; Kia | Kia Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2037
Term ends Feb 13, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 68 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,042,359.
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2020 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.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.