Lapsed Sep 7, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 23, 2036
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Saab AB
Filed Mar 23, 2018 as application 15/762,931 · Granted Sep 7, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 610 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 7, 2025
2016
2038
Clock starts
Sep 23, 2016
Sep 23, 2016
No longer in force
Sep 7, 2025
Sep 7, 2025
Granted
Sep 7, 2021
Sep 7, 2021
Term would have run to
May 26, 2038
May 26, 2038
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
610
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
51
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 May 26, 2038: its 20-year base term plus 610 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. 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 Sep 23, 2016, when application PCT/SE2016/050904, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 23, 2018) | Sep 23, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +610 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 26, 2038 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 7, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 7, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,111,932 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 11,286,965 | In force Jul 2036 | Jul 2036 |
| US 11,165,127 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 11,175,112 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 11,148,774 | In force Jul 2037 | Jul 2037 |
| US 11,067,354 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 11,549,785 | In force Jul 2039 | Jul 2039 |
| US 11,228,112 | In force Jul 2038 | Jul 2038 |
8 of 51 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 46069, frame 585 | Landberg, Magnus | Saab AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 610 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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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
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