Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 18, 2025 (Cit Northbridge Credit LLC).
Term ended Jan 20, 2026 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends May 2, 2032
Held by ADC Solutions Auto, LLC
Filed May 29, 2015 as application 14/725,609 · Granted May 2, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Jan 20, 2026
2012
2032
Clock starts
May 2, 2012
May 2, 2012
Term ended
Jan 20, 2026
Jan 20, 2026
Granted
May 2, 2017
May 2, 2017
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,194,132.
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.
11
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. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. Confidence: Low. 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 2, 2012, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed May 29, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 2, 2032 | 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 | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,194,132) | capped to Jan 20, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 13462371 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 20, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,245,207 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 8,194,132 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| Application 13/462,371 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,637,051 | this patent Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 11,603,042 | In force no later than Aug 2027 | no later than Aug 2027 |
5 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 2015 Reel 37344, frame 825 | Old World Industries, LLC | Winplus North America, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 17, 2022 Reel 60242, frame 142 | Winplus North America, Inc. | ADC Solutions Auto, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 18, 2025 Reel 70538, frame 960 | ADC Solutions Auto, LLC; Namawell, LLC | Cit Northbridge Credit LLC | Patent Security Agreement |
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Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,194,132.
Citations
10
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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