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Vehicle Immersive Communication System

US 12,549,659 Term ended
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Term ended Jun 13, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Jul 8, 2025 as application 19/263,075 · Granted Feb 10, 2026
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Jun 13, 2026
2006 2026
Clock starts
Jun 13, 2006
Term ended
Jun 13, 2026
Granted
Feb 10, 2026
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 12,341,920, to Jun 13, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
11
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. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 13, 2006, when application 11/452,117, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 8, 2025)Jun 13, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 12,341,920)resolves to Jun 13, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo maintenance fee can end the term earlyterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 13, 2026High confidence

This family

US 7,689,253In force
Nov 2028
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US 9,930,158In force
Dec 2026
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US 11,038,998Term ended
Jun 2026
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US 11,563,840Term ended
Jun 2026
Jun 2026
US 12,341,920Term ended
Jun 2026
Jun 2026
Application 19/027,080Pending
not computed
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Application 90/019,919Pending
not computed
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US 12,549,659this patent
Jun 2026
Jun 2026
8 of 11 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 8, 2025
Reel 71859, frame 759
Appy Risk Technologies LimitedVALUE8 Co., Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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