Term ended Oct 11, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 11, 2022
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Apr 27, 2026.
Held by Aptiv Technologies AG
Filed Feb 26, 2015 as application 14/632,999 · Granted Mar 20, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Oct 11, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Oct 11, 2002
Oct 11, 2002
Term ended
Oct 11, 2022
Oct 11, 2022
Granted
Mar 20, 2018
Mar 20, 2018
base term
after the term ends
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,721,378, to Oct 11, 2022. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it 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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 11, 2002, when application PCT/NZ2002/000213, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 26, 2015) | Oct 11, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,721,378) | resolves to Oct 11, 2022, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Apr 27, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 11, 2022 | 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 | Term ended 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 | this patent 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 28, 2015 Reel 36902, frame 472 | Bell, Gareth P | 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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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,721,378, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
16
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 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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