Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 28, 2019 (Bank of America, N.A.).
Lapsed Dec 21, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 18, 2030
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Gentherm Incorporated
Filed Oct 18, 2018 as application 16/164,072 · Granted Dec 21, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 458 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 21, 2025
2010
2031
Clock starts
May 18, 2010
May 18, 2010
No longer in force
Dec 21, 2025
Dec 21, 2025
Granted
Dec 21, 2021
Dec 21, 2021
Term would have run to
Aug 19, 2031
Aug 19, 2031
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
458
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,106,011, to Aug 19, 2031. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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.
Its term would have run to Aug 19, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 458 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 18, 2010, when application 12/782,569, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 18, 2018) | May 18, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +458 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 19, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,106,011) | resolves to Aug 19, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 21, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 21, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,613,200 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2021 | Dec 2021 |
| US 9,038,400 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 9,555,686 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 10,106,011 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Application 15/414,530 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,203,249 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
6 of 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 2019 Reel 48276, frame 533 | Goenka, Lakhi Nandlal | BSST LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 8, 2019 Reel 48276, frame 635 | BSST LLC | Gentherm Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2019 Reel 49627, frame 311 | Gentherm Incorporated | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Note
The 458 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,106,011, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is above 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.