Lapsed Sep 26, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 22, 2035
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Gingy Technology Inc.
Filed Dec 22, 2015 as application 14/978,237 · Granted Sep 26, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 114 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 26, 2025
2015
2036
Clock starts
Dec 22, 2015
Dec 22, 2015
No longer in force
Sep 26, 2025
Sep 26, 2025
Granted
Sep 26, 2017
Sep 26, 2017
Term would have run to
Apr 14, 2036
Apr 14, 2036
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
114
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
21
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 Apr 14, 2036: its 20-year base term plus 114 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 22, 2015, when this application, 14/978,237, was filed | Dec 22, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +114 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 14, 2036 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 26, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 26, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 14/835,130 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,770,199 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 9,977,947 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 10,049,256 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 10,356,296 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 10,043,847 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 10,713,521 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 9,964,436 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2026 | May 2026 |
8 of 21 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 22, 2015 Reel 37350, frame 1 | Hung, Chun-lang; Wu, Jen-chieh | Gingy Technology Inc. | 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.
What's changing
Note
The 114 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
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
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.