Term ends Dec 10, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 1, 2022
Held by Sick Ivp AB
Filed Feb 10, 2004 as application 10/774,948 · Granted Dec 30, 2014
Base term plus 1896 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2002
2027
Clock starts
Oct 1, 2002
Oct 1, 2002
Term ends
Dec 10, 2027
Dec 10, 2027
Granted
Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014
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
1,896
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
2
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 1896 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are 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 Oct 1, 2002, when application PCT/SE2002/001791, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 10, 2004) | Oct 1, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1896 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 10, 2027 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 10, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,923,599 | this patent Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 2006 Reel 17073, frame 542 | Ivp Integrated Vision Products AB | Sick Ivp Aktiebolag | Change of Name |
| Jan 12, 2011 Reel 25623, frame 576 | Astrom, Anders; Astrand, Erik | Sick Ivp AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2027
Term ends Dec 10, 2027.
Note
The 1896 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2014 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
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