Term ends Mar 25, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 5, 2031
Held by Thales DIS France SAS
Filed Oct 16, 2013 as application 13/991,766 · Granted Aug 2, 2016
Base term plus 111 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Dec 5, 2011
Dec 5, 2011
Term ends
Mar 25, 2032
Mar 25, 2032
Granted
Aug 2, 2016
Aug 2, 2016
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
111
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
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 111 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Dec 5, 2011, when application PCT/EP2011/071737, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 16, 2013) | Dec 5, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +111 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 25, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 25, 2032 | High 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 | this patent Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 9,037,193 | In force 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2016 Reel 37859, frame 626 | Bradley, Paul | Gemalto Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 30, 2016 Reel 39573, frame 250 | Gemalto Inc. | 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 |
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What's changing
Mar 2032
Term ends Mar 25, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 111 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
22
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2016 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.