Term ended Oct 18, 2021 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 18, 2021
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Veoneer Sweden AB
Filed Aug 10, 2007 as application 11/837,370 · Granted Aug 9, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Oct 18, 2021
2001
2026
Clock starts
Oct 18, 2001
Oct 18, 2001
Term ended
Oct 18, 2021
Oct 18, 2021
Granted
Aug 9, 2011
Aug 9, 2011
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Oct 18, 2001, when application PCT/SE2001/002283, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 10, 2007); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 18, 2021 | 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 | None on file | no change | 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 | Oct 18, 2021 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 10/415,208 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,140,464 | Term ended 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 2007 Reel 20093, frame 152 | Kallhammer, Jan-erik; Eriksson, Dick; Karlsson, Lars; Straat, Staffan | Autoliv Development AB; Flir Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 9, 2007 reel/frame not recorded | Karlsson, Lars; Straat, Staffan; Eriksson, Dick; Kallhammer, Jan-erik | Autoliv Development AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 9, 2007 reel/frame not recorded | Karlsson, Lars; Straat, Staffan; Eriksson, Dick; Kallhammer, Jan-erik | Flir Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 19, 2018 Reel 46131, frame 782 | Autoliv Development AB | Veoneer Sweden AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
24
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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