Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 23, 2020 (Sino Xin Ji Limited).
Lapsed May 19, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 9, 2032
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Kateeva, Inc.
Filed Aug 9, 2012 as application 13/571,166 · Granted May 19, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 155 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 19, 2023
2012
2033
Clock starts
Aug 9, 2012
Aug 9, 2012
No longer in force
May 19, 2023
May 19, 2023
Granted
May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015
Term would have run to
Jan 11, 2033
Jan 11, 2033
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
155
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.
98
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 Jan 11, 2033: its 20-year base term plus 155 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 Aug 9, 2012, when this application, 13/571,166, was filed | Aug 9, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +155 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 11, 2033 | 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 May 19, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 19, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,042,596 | In force Nov 2033 | Nov 2033 |
| US 9,034,428 | this patent May 2023 | May 2023 |
| Application 13/616,238 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,456,916 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2020 | Oct 2020 |
| US 9,536,449 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2021 | Jan 2021 |
| US 9,254,099 | In force Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| Application 13/902,919 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 14/071,112 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2012 Reel 28915, frame 401 | Lowrance, Robert B.; Vronsky, Eliyahu; Madigan, Conor F.; Ko, Alexander Sou-kang | Kateeva, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 4, 2019 Reel 48806, frame 639 | Kateeva, Inc. | East West Bank | Security Interest |
| Jan 22, 2020 Reel 51664, frame 802 | East West Bank, a California Banking Corporation | Kateeva, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 23, 2020 Reel 51682, frame 212 | Kateeva, Inc. | Sino Xin Ji Limited | Security Agreement |
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Note
The 155 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
76
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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