Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 22, 2018 (Pacific Western Bank).
Term ends Jan 6, 2034 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 18, 2033
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Nlight, Inc.
Filed Nov 6, 2017 as application 15/804,802 · Granted Jun 23, 2020
USPTO first gave this application the number US 10,559,395 and withdrew it before it issued. That number now leads here.
Base term plus 110 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Sep 18, 2013
Sep 18, 2013
Term ends
Jan 6, 2034
Jan 6, 2034
Granted
Jun 23, 2020
Jun 23, 2020
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
110
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.
12
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 110 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Sep 18, 2013, when applications 14/030,799 and PCT/US2013/060470, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Nov 6, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Sep 18, 2033 | 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 | +110 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 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 | Jan 6, 2034 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 61/875,679 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,537,042 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 9,842,665 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 10,100,393 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 10,464,172 | In force Oct 2035 | Oct 2035 |
| US 10,692,620 | this patent Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 11,008,644 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 11,411,132 | In force Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 2018 Reel 45019, frame 370 | Nlight, Inc. | Pacific Western Bank | Security Interest |
| Jan 19, 2018 Reel 44679, frame 444 | Gross, Ken | Nlight Photonics Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 19, 2018 Reel 45095, frame 810 | Nlight Photonics Corporation | Nlight, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 22, 2018 Reel 45676, frame 366 | Nlight, Inc. | Pacific Western Bank | Security Interest |
| Oct 23, 2018 Reel 47291, frame 833 | Nlight, Inc. | Pacific Western Bank | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2034
Term ends Jan 6, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 110 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.