Term ended Oct 3, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended May 18, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Autoliv Development AB
Filed Apr 2, 2014 as application 14/243,209 · Granted Sep 20, 2016
Base term plus 138 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 3, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
May 18, 2006
May 18, 2006
Term ended
Oct 3, 2026
Oct 3, 2026
Granted
Sep 20, 2016
Sep 20, 2016
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
138
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 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.
4
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 138 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 May 18, 2006, when application PCT/JP2006/309960, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 2, 2014); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 18, 2026 | 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 | +138 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 3, 2026 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 3, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,777,147 | In force Aug 2031 | Aug 2031 |
| US 9,446,737 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,099,653 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
3 of 4 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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Note
The 138 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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