Also listed on QUALCOMM Incorporated, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 17, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 26, 2027
Held by Qualcomm Auto Ltd.
Filed Nov 26, 2007 as application 11/986,711 · Granted Sep 10, 2013
Base term plus 1117 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2030
Clock starts
Nov 26, 2007
Nov 26, 2007
Term ends
Dec 17, 2030
Dec 17, 2030
Granted
Sep 10, 2013
Sep 10, 2013
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
1,117
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
25
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 1117 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Nov 26, 2007, when this application, 11/986,711, was filed | Nov 26, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1117 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 17, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 17, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/415,208 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,140,464 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| Application 10/753,191 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,329,869 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2006/035219 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,995,095 | Term ended Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| US 8,532,862 | this patent Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 8,228,379 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2020 | Jul 2020 |
8 of 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2016 Reel 37962, frame 758 | Neff, Ryan a, MR | Neff Innovations, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 14, 2017 Reel 41250, frame 1 | Neff Innovations, LLC | Autoliv Development AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 19, 2018 Reel 46392, frame 277 | Autoliv Development AB | Veoneer Sweden AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 3, 2022 Reel 60097, frame 807 | Veoneer Sweden AB | Arriver Software AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 11, 2024 Reel 69171, frame 233 | Arriver Software AB | Qualcomm Auto Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2030
Term ends Dec 17, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1117 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
422
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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