Also listed on Alpine Electronics, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Feb 14, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 14, 2034
Filed May 3, 2018 as application 15/970,787 · Granted Apr 20, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Feb 14, 2014
Feb 14, 2014
Term ends
Feb 14, 2034
Feb 14, 2034
Granted
Apr 20, 2021
Apr 20, 2021
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.
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.
12
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. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record
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| 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 May 3, 2018) | 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 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 14, 2034 | High 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 | In force no later than Feb 2034 | no later than Feb 2034 |
| US 10,986,454 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2018 Reel 45712, frame 278 | Lin, Rocky Chau-hsiung; Yamasaki, Thomas; Toki, Hiroyuki; Kanda, Koichiro | Alpine Electronics of Silicon Valley, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2034
Term ends Feb 14, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
44
later US patents cite this one
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