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US 7,592,592 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Sep 22, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 13, 2006 as application 10/512,391 · Granted Sep 22, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 350 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 22, 2021
2002 2026
Clock starts
Apr 23, 2002
No longer in force
Sep 22, 2021
Granted
Sep 22, 2009
Term would have run to
Apr 8, 2023
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
350
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
46
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 Apr 8, 2023: its 20-year base term plus 350 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Apr 23, 2002, when application PCT/SE2002/000785, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 13, 2006)Apr 23, 2022High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+350 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 8, 2023High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 22, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 22, 2021High confidence

This family

Application 10/372,662Abandoned
not computed
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US 7,592,592this patent
Sep 2021
Sep 2021
US 8,471,911Term ended
Apr 2023
Apr 2023
US 11,360,864In force
Jul 2037
Jul 2037
US 11,029,405In force
Sep 2037
Sep 2037
US 11,061,127In force
Dec 2036
Dec 2036
US 10,816,660In force
Jun 2037
Jun 2037
Application 15/757,172Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 46 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
Feb 13, 2006
Reel 18021, frame 329
Eriksson, DickAutoliv Development ABAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 19, 2018
Reel 46131, frame 782
Autoliv Development ABVeoneer Sweden ABAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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