Lapsed Apr 25, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 24, 2035
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Filed Jun 24, 2015 as application 14/749,373 · Granted Apr 25, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 170 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 25, 2021
2015
2035
Clock starts
Jun 24, 2015
Jun 24, 2015
No longer in force
Apr 25, 2021
Apr 25, 2021
Granted
Apr 25, 2017
Apr 25, 2017
Term would have run to
Dec 11, 2035
Dec 11, 2035
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
170
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
5
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Dec 11, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 170 days of term adjustment for 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 Jun 24, 2015, when this application, 14/749,373, was filed | Jun 24, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +170 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 11, 2035 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Apr 25, 2021 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 25, 2021 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,630,498 | this patent Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| US 10,086,699 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,937,795 | In force Mar 2036 | Mar 2036 |
| US 9,865,164 | In force Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
| US 10,150,370 | In force Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2015 Reel 36516, frame 100 | Konet, Heather; Tan, Adrian; Goudy, Roy; Christensen, Andrew; Probert, Neal; Chambers, Jeremy | Nissan North America, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 2, 2017 Reel 43172, frame 768 | Nissan North America, Inc. | Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 170 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
36
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2017 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.