Term ends Aug 10, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 30, 2028
Held by Infineon Technologies AG
Filed Jul 29, 2015 as application 14/812,907 · Granted Dec 1, 2020
Base term plus 941 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
May 30, 2008
May 30, 2008
Term ends
Aug 10, 2028
Aug 10, 2028
Granted
Dec 1, 2020
Dec 1, 2020
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
941
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,338,159.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
13
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 941 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 1 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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 May 30, 2008, when application 12/130,678, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 29, 2015) | May 30, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +941 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 27, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,338,159) | capped to Aug 10, 2028 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 10, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,773,124 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 10,996,290 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 10,704,933 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 10,338,159 | In force Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| US 10,852,367 | this patent Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| US 10,338,158 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| US 10,677,617 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 10,704,926 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2015 Reel 36745, frame 592 | Koeck, Helmut; Werth, Tobias; Heinrichs, Frank; Ausserlechner, Udo | Infineon Technologies AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Aug 2028
Term ends Aug 10, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 941 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,338,159.
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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