Also listed on Hypres, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Lapsed Oct 23, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 27, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.
Held by Seeqc,inc.
Filed Mar 10, 2017 as application 15/456,010 · Granted Oct 23, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 23, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Dec 27, 2006
Dec 27, 2006
No longer in force
Oct 23, 2026
Oct 23, 2026
Granted
Oct 23, 2018
Oct 23, 2018
Term would have run to
Dec 27, 2026
Dec 27, 2026
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,615,385, US 9,136,457, US 9,595,656, to Dec 27, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
6
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 27, 2026: 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: Low. 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 Dec 27, 2006, when application 11/616,382, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 10, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Dec 27, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,615,385, US 9,136,457, US 9,595,656) | resolves to Dec 27, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case" | lapsed Oct 23, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 23, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,615,385 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| Application 12/346,603 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,136,457 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 9,595,656 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 10,109,673 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
5 of 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 2017 Reel 41542, frame 407 | Tolpygo, Sergey K. | Hypres, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 7, 2019 Reel 49412, frame 196 | Hypres, Inc. | Seeqc,inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,615,385, US 9,136,457, US 9,595,656, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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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