Term ends Oct 29, 2034 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 14, 2033
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Aptiv Technologies AG
Filed May 20, 2015 as application 14/717,345 · Granted May 17, 2022
Base term plus 594 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013
Term ends
Oct 29, 2034
Oct 29, 2034
Granted
May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022
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
594
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
6
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 594 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Mar 14, 2013, when application 13/804,245, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 20, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 14, 2033 | 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 | +594 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 29, 2034 | 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 | Oct 29, 2034 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 13/804,245 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 14/101,472 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,336,058 | this patent Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| Application 15/369,973 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,109,958 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
| US 10,211,546 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
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 20, 2015 Reel 35680, frame 257 | Liptak, Nicole L.; Taylor, Bruce D.; Boyer, Richard J. | Delphi Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 26, 2018 Reel 47153, frame 902 | Delphi Technologies Inc. | Aptiv Technologies Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2024 Reel 66551, frame 219 | Aptiv Manufacturing Management Services S.À R.L. | Aptiv Technologies AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2024 Reel 66566, frame 173 | Aptiv Technologies (2) S.À R.L. | Aptiv Manufacturing Management Services S.À R.L. | Merger |
| Feb 11, 2024 Reel 66746, frame 1 | Aptiv Technologies Limited | Aptiv Technologies (2) S.À R.L. | Entity Conversion |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2034
Term ends Oct 29, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 594 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
16
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.