Lapsed Sep 2, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 15, 2027
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Lear Corporation
Filed Mar 8, 2012 as application 13/415,805 · Granted Sep 2, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 150 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 2, 2022
2007
2027
Clock starts
May 15, 2007
May 15, 2007
No longer in force
Sep 2, 2022
Sep 2, 2022
Granted
Sep 2, 2014
Sep 2, 2014
Term would have run to
Oct 12, 2027
Oct 12, 2027
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
150
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
34
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 Oct 12, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 150 days of term 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 May 15, 2007, when application PCT/US2007/011624, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 8, 2012) | May 15, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +150 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 12, 2027 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 2, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 2, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2007/011632 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2007/011624 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,189,552 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 8,817,599 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
| US 8,750,274 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| US 8,824,438 | this patent Sep 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| US 8,885,625 | In force no later than Apr 2028 | no later than Apr 2028 |
| US 8,817,762 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
8 of 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2012 Reel 28071, frame 910 | Moeller, Douglas S; Pashby, Ronald W | Autonet Mobile, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 24, 2015 Reel 36434, frame 205 | Autonet Mobile, Inc. | Lear Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 4, 2015 Reel 36497, frame 734 | Lear Corporation | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Feb 4, 2016 Reel 37670, frame 263 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Agent | Lear Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
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Note
The 150 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2014 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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