Term ended Mar 13, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 17, 2024
Held by Aptiv Technologies AG
Filed Mar 5, 2007 as application 10/557,157 · Granted Apr 10, 2012
Base term plus 665 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Mar 13, 2026
2004
2026
Clock starts
May 17, 2004
May 17, 2004
Term ended
Mar 13, 2026
Mar 13, 2026
Granted
Apr 10, 2012
Apr 10, 2012
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
665
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.
51
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 665 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 May 17, 2004, when application PCT/NZ2004/000092, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 5, 2007) | May 17, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +665 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 13, 2026 | 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 | Mar 13, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,149,353 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 8,154,473 | this patent Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 8,687,149 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 9,292,150 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 9,721,378 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 9,519,154 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2015/017859 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,922,445 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
8 of 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2007 Reel 19001, frame 419 | Engel, Gabriel Damon; Ferguson, David John; Macleod, Hamish John Ogilvie; Seymour, Bruce David | Pure Depth Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 12, 2007 Reel 19559, frame 924 | Engel, Gabriel D.; Ferguson, David John; Macleod, Hamish John Ogilvie; Seymour, Bruce David | Pure Depth Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Address, Previously Recorded at Reel 019001 Frame 0419. |
| Jun 30, 2015 Reel 35997, frame 146 | Puredepth Limited | K One W One Limited | Security Interest |
| Apr 5, 2022 Reel 59596, frame 413 | Puredepth Limited (Also Referred to as Pure Depth Limited); Puredepth Inc. (Also Referred to as Pure Depth) | Aptiv Technologies Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2024 Reel 66551, frame 219 | Aptiv Manufacturing Management Services S.À R.L. | Aptiv Technologies AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2024 Reel 66566, frame 173 | Aptiv Technologies (2) S.À R.L. | Aptiv Manufacturing Management Services S.À R.L. | Merger |
| Feb 11, 2024 Reel 66746, frame 1 | Aptiv Technologies Limited | Aptiv Technologies (2) S.À R.L. | Entity Conversion |
Sources
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Note
The 665 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
156
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2012 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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