Lapsed May 22, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 25, 2035
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Gingy Technology Inc.
Filed Jul 13, 2016 as application 15/208,619 · Granted May 22, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 22, 2026
2015
2035
Clock starts
Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015
No longer in force
May 22, 2026
May 22, 2026
Granted
May 22, 2018
May 22, 2018
Term would have run to
Nov 12, 2035
Nov 12, 2035
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
79
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 Nov 12, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 79 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 Aug 25, 2015, when application 14/835,130, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 13, 2016) | Aug 25, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +79 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 12, 2035 | 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 May 22, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 22, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 14/835,130 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,770,199 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 9,977,947 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2016 Reel 39151, frame 703 | Wu, Jen-chieh; Hung, Chun-lang | 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 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2018 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.