Term ends Apr 13, 2032 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 5, 2031
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Thales DIS France SAS
Filed Oct 18, 2013 as application 13/991,752 · Granted May 19, 2015
Base term plus 130 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Dec 5, 2011
Dec 5, 2011
Term ends
Apr 13, 2032
Apr 13, 2032
Granted
May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
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
130
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.
19
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 130 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Dec 5, 2011, when application PCT/EP2011/071731, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 18, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Dec 5, 2031 | 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 | +130 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 13, 2032 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 13, 2032 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,301,145 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 10,242,210 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 9,532,223 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 9,760,726 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| Application 13/992,065 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,408,066 | In force Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 9,037,193 | this patent Apr 2032 | Apr 2032 |
| US 9,946,888 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
8 of 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 2013 Reel 31435, frame 482 | Vergnes, Fabrice; Mathian, Nicolas | Gemalto S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 25, 2023 Reel 64716, frame 485 | Gemalto S.A. | Thales DIS France S.A. | Change of Name |
| Sep 1, 2023 Reel 64771, frame 111 | Thales DIS France S.A. | Thales DIS France SAS | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2032
Term ends Apr 13, 2032. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 130 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
33
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.