Lapsed Nov 16, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 25, 2036
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Saab AB
Filed May 24, 2019 as application 16/464,116 · Granted Nov 16, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 239 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 16, 2025
2016
2037
Clock starts
Nov 25, 2016
Nov 25, 2016
No longer in force
Nov 16, 2025
Nov 16, 2025
Granted
Nov 16, 2021
Nov 16, 2021
Term would have run to
Jul 22, 2037
Jul 22, 2037
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
239
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 Jul 22, 2037: its 20-year base term plus 239 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 Nov 25, 2016, when application PCT/SE2016/051172, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 24, 2019) | Nov 25, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +239 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 22, 2037 | 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 Nov 16, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 16, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,111,932 | Lapsed on the fee record 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2019 Reel 49686, frame 410 | Linderö, Björn | Saab AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 239 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
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2021 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
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