Term ends Sep 2, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 21, 2032
Held by Astemo Ueda, Ltd.
Filed Feb 21, 2012 as application 13/401,205 · Granted Feb 16, 2016
Base term plus 924 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2034
Clock starts
Feb 21, 2012
Feb 21, 2012
Term ends
Sep 2, 2034
Sep 2, 2034
Granted
Feb 16, 2016
Feb 16, 2016
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
924
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.
3
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 924 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 Feb 21, 2012, when this application, 13/401,205, was filed | Feb 21, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +924 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 2, 2034 | 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 | Sep 2, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,260,096 | this patent Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 10,328,916 | In force Aug 2032 | Aug 2032 |
| US 10,676,074 | In force Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2012 Reel 28149, frame 170 | Kojima, Takeshi; Futamura, Tomoyuki | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 2, 2012 Reel 28149, frame 738 | Miyata, Kazuaki | Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 2, 2016 Reel 38782, frame 897 | Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd. | Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 10, 2025 Reel 74973, frame 598 | Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd. | Astemo Ueda, Ltd. | Merger |
| Mar 2, 2026 Reel 74993, frame 895 | Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd. | Astemo Ueda, Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Sep 17, 2026 Reel 76644, frame 80 | Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd. | Astemo Ueda, Ltd. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Brief: Merger Should Be Brief: Change of Name Previously Recorded on Reel 74973 Frame 598. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Change of Name. |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2034
Term ends Sep 2, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 924 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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