Lapsed Jun 11, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 6, 2030
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
Filed Sep 23, 2011 as application 13/260,094 · Granted Jun 11, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jun 11, 2025
2010
2030
Clock starts
Jul 6, 2010
Jul 6, 2010
No longer in force
Jun 11, 2025
Jun 11, 2025
Granted
Jun 11, 2013
Jun 11, 2013
Term would have run to
Jul 6, 2030
Jul 6, 2030
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.
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.
58
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 6, 2030: its 20-year base term, with no 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jul 6, 2010, when application PCT/JP2010/004407, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 23, 2011) | Jul 6, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 11, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 11, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,835,080 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 8,130,108 | In force Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
| US 8,459,385 | this patent Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 8,982,069 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 9,761,898 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| Application 14/234,189 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,461,312 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 9,431,661 | In force Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
8 of 58 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 11, 2011 Reel 27217, frame 594 | Katano, Koji | Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2013 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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