Term ends May 1, 2038 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 20, 2037
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by TomTom Telematics B .V.
Filed Feb 3, 2023 as application 18/105,570 · Granted Jul 14, 2026
Base term plus 315 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2038
Clock starts
Jun 20, 2017
Jun 20, 2017
Term ends
May 1, 2038
May 1, 2038
Granted
Jul 14, 2026
Jul 14, 2026
base term
patent term adjustment
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
315
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 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.
3
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 315 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are 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 Jun 20, 2017, when application PCT/EP2017/065140, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 3, 2023); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 20, 2037 | 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 | +315 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 1, 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 1, 2038 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 11,587,375 | In force Nov 2038 | Nov 2038 |
| US 12,682,694 | this patent May 2038 | May 2038 |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2026 Reel 74904, frame 609 | Pomsel, André; Schiller, Henrik; Schmidt, Alexander; Hagenau, Thomas; Liebscher, René; Meissner, Christian | TomTom Development Germany GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 10, 2026 Reel 74904, frame 627 | TomTom Development Germany GmbH | TomTom Telematics B .V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
May 2038
Term ends May 1, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 315 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
We have no citation count for this patent yet. That is not the same as never having been cited.
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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