Term ends Apr 30, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 30, 2028
Held by Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
Filed Oct 31, 2014 as application 14/529,459 · Granted Sep 27, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Apr 30, 2008
Apr 30, 2008
Term ends
Apr 30, 2028
Apr 30, 2028
Granted
Sep 27, 2016
Sep 27, 2016
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
7
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 2 of 2 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 Apr 30, 2008, when application PCT/IL2008/000581, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 31, 2014) | Apr 30, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 30, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,902,933 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 9,893,760 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| Application 14/529,446 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 14/529,442 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,455,764 | this patent Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| Application 15/860,287 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
6 of 7 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 14, 2024 Reel 66768, frame 877 | Mushkin, Mordechai; Zigdon, Shimon; Ratner, Miri; Harif, David | Visonic Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 14, 2024 Reel 66769, frame 74 | Visonic Ltd. | Tyco Fire & Security GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2028
Term ends Apr 30, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
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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