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Sunlight Aerospace Inc.

62 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026
Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.

Previously recorded as Sunlight Photonics Inc. (to 2019)

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Fee deadlines

Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.
  • 2 fees due Dec 2 to 30, 2026 · next Dec 2
  • 2 fees due Jan 14 to 21, 2027 · next Jan 14
  • 1 fee due Apr 22, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Methods of airflow vortex sensing and tracking (US 10,450,083) comes due Apr 22, 2027. Unpaid by Oct 22, 2027, it lapses early.
  • 1 fee due Jun 10, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Methods and apparatus for thermal energy management in electric vehicles (US 10,505,240) comes due Jun 10, 2027. Unpaid by Dec 10, 2027, it lapses early.
  • 1 fee due Jul 21, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Solar desalination system employing a humidification-dehumidification process (US 10,538,435) comes due Jul 21, 2027. Unpaid by Jan 21, 2028, it lapses early.
  • 3 fees due Oct 5 to 23, 2027 · next Oct 5

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Recent changes

  • 1 of the patents on this record was granted since Aug 16, 2026

Patents held now

Soonest term end first. Each date below is computed on that patent's own page, which shows the rule, the adjustments and the fee history it was derived from.
PatentTitleStatus Expires Confidence
US 10,043,929Spectrally adaptive multijunction photovoltaic thin film device and method of producing same
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US 8,552,582Distributed solar power plant and a method of its connection to the existing power grid
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US 9,231,405System and method for operating a distributed energy generating plant using a renewable source of energy
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US 8,097,980Distributed solar power plant and a method of its connection to the existing power grid
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US 8,343,794Method and apparatus for manufacturing multi-layered electro-optic devices
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US 8,187,906Method for fabricating composite substances for thin film electro-optical devices
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US 7,842,534Method for forming a compound semi-conductor thin-film
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US 8,110,428Thin-film photovoltaic devices
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US 8,835,748Multi-junction PV module
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US 9,087,948Manufacturing method of multi-junction PV modules
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Also on record, not counted in the 62: 4 lapsed for an unpaid fee. List them

Sources and methods

Compiled from the USPTO record, grants, published applications and recorded assignments, not yet reviewed by hand. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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