Term ended Aug 28, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 17, 2024
Held by Aptiv Technologies AG
Filed Apr 10, 2012 as application 13/443,764 · Granted Mar 22, 2016
Base term plus 468 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Aug 28, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
May 17, 2004
May 17, 2004
Term ended
Aug 28, 2025
Aug 28, 2025
Granted
Mar 22, 2016
Mar 22, 2016
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
468
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 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.
51
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 468 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 17, 2004, when application PCT/NZ2004/000092, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 10, 2012) | May 17, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +468 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 28, 2025 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 28, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,149,353 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 8,154,473 | Term ended Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 8,687,149 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 9,292,150 | this patent Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 9,721,378 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 9,519,154 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2015/017859 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,922,445 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
8 of 51 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 30, 2015 Reel 36927, frame 745 | Engel, Gabriel D; Ferguson, David J; Macleod, Hamish J; Seymour, Bruce D | Pure Depth Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 5, 2022 Reel 59596, frame 413 | Puredepth Limited (Also Referred to as Pure Depth Limited); Puredepth Inc. (Also Referred to as Pure Depth) | Aptiv Technologies Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2024 Reel 66551, frame 219 | Aptiv Manufacturing Management Services S.À R.L. | Aptiv Technologies AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2024 Reel 66566, frame 173 | Aptiv Technologies (2) S.À R.L. | Aptiv Manufacturing Management Services S.À R.L. | Merger |
| Feb 11, 2024 Reel 66746, frame 1 | Aptiv Technologies Limited | Aptiv Technologies (2) S.À R.L. | Entity Conversion |
Sources
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Note
The 468 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 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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