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System for Electrically Connecting Batteries to Electric Vehicles

US 7,993,155 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 9, 2023 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Sep 18, 2009 as application 12/563,107 · Granted Aug 9, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 88 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 9, 2023
2009 2029
Clock starts
Apr 23, 2009
No longer in force
Aug 9, 2023
Granted
Aug 9, 2011
Term would have run to
Jul 20, 2029
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events 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
88
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.
4
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 Jul 20, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 88 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 23, 2009, when application 12/428,932, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 18, 2009); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Apr 23, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+88 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 20, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 9, 2023High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 9, 2023Medium confidence

This family

US 7,993,155this patent
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
US 8,454,377In force
Apr 2029
Apr 2029
Application 14/144,514Abandoned
not computed
not computed
3 of 4 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
Jan 14, 2010
Reel 23790, frame 779
Heichal, Yoav; Agassi, Tal; Agassi, ShaiBetter Place GmbHAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 28, 2016
Reel 37627, frame 615
Better Place GmbHRenault S.A.S.Confirmatory Assignment

Sources

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