Term ends Jan 23, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 8, 2026
Held by Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation
Filed Nov 8, 2006 as application 11/557,818 · Granted Dec 8, 2009
Base term plus 441 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2028
Clock starts
Nov 8, 2006
Nov 8, 2006
Term ends
Jan 23, 2028
Jan 23, 2028
Granted
Dec 8, 2009
Dec 8, 2009
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
441
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.
2
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 441 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Nov 8, 2006, when this application, 11/557,818, was filed | Nov 8, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +441 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 23, 2028 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 23, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,629,898 | this patent Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 8,159,368 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 2006 Reel 18496, frame 888 | Kirkpatrick, Mark | BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 27, 2022 Reel 61790, frame 538 | BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation | AT&T Intellectual Property, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 27, 2022 Reel 61790, frame 706 | AT&T Intellectual Property, Inc. | AT&T BLS Intellectual Property, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 27, 2022 Reel 61791, frame 86 | AT&T BLS Intellectual Property, Inc. | AT&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Nov 3, 2022 Reel 61647, frame 384 | AT&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc. | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 13, 2023 Reel 62371, frame 377 | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Hyundai Motor Company; Kia Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 13, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Hyundai Motor Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 13, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Kia Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2028
Term ends Jan 23, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 441 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
25
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2009 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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