Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 9, 2022 (Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch).
Term ends Oct 6, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 17, 2033
Held by Lumileds LLC
Filed Jun 15, 2016 as application 15/104,951 · Granted Apr 16, 2019
Base term plus 293 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Dec 17, 2013
Dec 17, 2013
Term ends
Oct 6, 2034
Oct 6, 2034
Granted
Apr 16, 2019
Apr 16, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
293
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
3
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 293 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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 Dec 17, 2013, when application PCT/CN2013/089725, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 15, 2016) | Dec 17, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +293 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 6, 2034 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 6, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,260,684 | this patent Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
1 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 2016 Reel 39722, frame 583 | Elzinga, Marcus Johannes Gerardus; Martin, Paul Scott | Koninklijke Philips N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 9, 2018 Reel 45859, frame 5 | Koninklijke Philips N.V. | Lumileds LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 9, 2022 Reel 62114, frame 1 | Lumileds, LLC | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch | Patent Security Agreement |
| Jan 5, 2023 Reel 62299, frame 338 | Lumileds LLC; Lumileds Holding B.V. | Sound Point Agency LLC | Security Interest |
| Jan 29, 2025 Reel 70046, frame 1 | Sound Point Agency LLC | Lumileds LLC; Lumileds Holding B.V. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 29, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Sound Point Agency LLC | Lumileds LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 29, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Sound Point Agency LLC | Lumileds Holding B.V. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2034
Term ends Oct 6, 2034.
Note
The 293 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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