Lapsed Oct 2, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 24, 2035
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Filed Feb 29, 2016 as application 15/056,815 · Granted Oct 2, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 244 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 2, 2026
2015
2036
Clock starts
Jun 24, 2015
Jun 24, 2015
No longer in force
Oct 2, 2026
Oct 2, 2026
Granted
Oct 2, 2018
Oct 2, 2018
Term would have run to
Feb 23, 2036
Feb 23, 2036
base term
patent term adjustment
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
244
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,937,795, to Feb 23, 2036. 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.
5
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 Feb 23, 2036: its 20-year base term plus 244 days of term 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: 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 Jun 24, 2015, when application 14/749,373, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 29, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 24, 2035 | 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 | +244 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 23, 2036 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,937,795) | resolves to Feb 23, 2036, 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 Oct 2, 2026 | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 14749373 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 2, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 9,630,498 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| US 10,086,699 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,937,795 | In force Mar 2036 | Mar 2036 |
| US 9,865,164 | In force Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
| US 10,150,370 | In force Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
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 25, 2016 Reel 38104, frame 159 | Konet, Heather; Goudy, Roy; Christensen, Andrew | Nissan North America, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 27, 2019 Reel 48146, frame 130 | Nissan North America, Inc. | Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 244 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,937,795, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
61
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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