Lapsed May 2, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 14, 2030
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed May 27, 2016 as application 15/166,460 · Granted May 2, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 2, 2025
2010
2030
Clock starts
Oct 14, 2010
Oct 14, 2010
No longer in force
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
Granted
May 2, 2017
May 2, 2017
Term would have run to
Oct 14, 2030
Oct 14, 2030
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,015,497, US 9,355,504, to Oct 14, 2030. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Oct 14, 2030: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Oct 14, 2010, when application PCT/IB2010/055799, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 27, 2016) | Oct 14, 2030 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,015,497, US 9,355,504) | resolves to Oct 14, 2030, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 2, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 2, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,015,497 | In force Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 9,355,504 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 9,641,541 | this patent May 2025 | May 2025 |
3 of 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2016 Reel 39474, frame 426 | Peeters, Michael Michel Patrick; Nikov, Ventzislav; Debast, Claude | NXP B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 18, 2016 Reel 39474, frame 458 | NXP B.V. | Telit Automotive Solutions N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 13, 2016 Reel 40007, frame 201 | Telit Automotive Solutions N.V. | HSBC Bank PLC | Security Interest |
| Feb 28, 2019 Reel 48466, frame 594 | HSBC Bank PLC | Telit Automotive Solutions N.V. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 10, 2020 Reel 51857, frame 882 | Telit Automotive Solutions N.V. | Titan Automotive Solutions N.V. | Change of Name |
| Jan 19, 2022 Reel 58686, frame 883 | Titan Automotive Solutions N.V. | Titan Intelligence Technology Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,015,497, US 9,355,504, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2017 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.