Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 9, 2025 (Horizon Technology Finance Corporation).
Term ended Feb 15, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 30, 2023
Held by Veoneer Sweden Safety Systems AB
Filed Jun 30, 2003 as application 10/610,365 · Granted Nov 28, 2006
Base term plus 230 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Feb 15, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2003
Jun 30, 2003
Term ended
Feb 15, 2024
Feb 15, 2024
Granted
Nov 28, 2006
Nov 28, 2006
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
230
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
25
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 230 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Jun 30, 2003, when this application, 10/610,365, was filed | Jun 30, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +230 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 15, 2024 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 15, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/415,208 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,140,464 | this patent Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| Application 10/753,191 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,329,869 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2006/035219 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,995,095 | Term ended Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| US 8,532,862 | In force Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 8,228,379 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2020 | Jul 2020 |
8 of 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 2003 Reel 14561, frame 655 | Erb, Yannick | Autoliv Development AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 19, 2018 Reel 46131, frame 782 | Autoliv Development AB | Veoneer Sweden AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 7, 2023 Reel 62978, frame 523 | Veoneer Sweden AB | Veoneer Passive Co. AB | Transfer Agreement |
| Dec 4, 2023 Reel 65762, frame 141 | Veoneer Passive Co. AB | Veoneer Sweden Safety Systems AB | Change of Name |
| Jan 9, 2025 Reel 69857, frame 887 | Onkos Surgical, Inc. | Horizon Technology Finance Corporation | Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
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
Note
The 230 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2006 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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