Term ends Feb 13, 2030 · Low confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Grace period ended Nov 6, 2026 · no payment on record as of the Nov 10, 2026 fee file · lapse expected

Held by Infineon Technologies AG

Filed Apr 25, 2016 as application 15/137,594 · Granted Nov 6, 2018

Base term plus 52 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Feb 13, 2030

2009 2030

Clock starts
Dec 23, 2009

Term ends
Feb 13, 2030

Granted
Nov 6, 2018

base term patent term adjustment 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

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 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.

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 runs 52 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Low: the grace period for its second maintenance fee ended Nov 6, 2026 with no payment on record. 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 23, 2009, when application 12/645,969, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 25, 2016)	Dec 23, 2029	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+52 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Feb 13, 2030	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	The grace period ended with no payment on record in the fee file	grace period ended Nov 6, 2026	Low confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Feb 13, 2030	Low confidence

This family

US 8,278,749	In force Jan 2030	Jan 2030
US 8,460,967	Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2025	Jun 2025
US 8,624,381	Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2026	Jan 2026
US 9,349,696	Lapsed on the fee record May 2024	May 2024
US 10,121,751	this patent Feb 2030	Feb 2030
US 10,692,824	Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2024	Jun 2024

The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

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.

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Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.

What's changing

Nov 6

Grace period ended Nov 6, 2026 with no payment on record. The term ends early once USPTO posts the lapse

Feb 2030

Term ends Feb 13, 2030.

Note

The 52 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 10% 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.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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