Term ended Jul 22, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 16, 2024
Held by Assa Abloy AB
Filed Jul 30, 2012 as application 13/561,267 · Granted Oct 13, 2015
Base term plus 6 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 22, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Jul 16, 2004
Jul 16, 2004
Term ended
Jul 22, 2024
Jul 22, 2024
Granted
Oct 13, 2015
Oct 13, 2015
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
6
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,261,319, to Jul 22, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
3
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 6 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 16, 2004, when application 10/893,174, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 30, 2012) | Jul 16, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +6 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 22, 2024 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,261,319) | resolves to Jul 22, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 22, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,261,319 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 9,158,288 | this patent Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 9,449,443 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2012 Reel 28790, frame 771 | Libin, Phil; Micali, Silvio; Engberg, David | Corestreet, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 11, 2014 Reel 32404, frame 759 | Corestreet Ltd. | Assa Abloy AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 6 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,261,319, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
24
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.
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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