Term ends Mar 2, 2038 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 2, 2038
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Korrus, Inc.
Filed Apr 24, 2019 as application 16/393,660 · Granted Oct 13, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018
Term ends
Mar 2, 2038
Mar 2, 2038
Granted
Oct 13, 2020
Oct 13, 2020
base term
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.
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.
86
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. 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 Mar 2, 2018, when applications PCT/US2018/020787, PCT/US2018/020790, PCT/US2018/020792 and PCT/US2018/020793, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Apr 24, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 2, 2038 | 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 | 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 | Mar 2, 2038 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2016/015402 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2016/015385 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2016/015318 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2016/015368 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2016/015441 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2016/015348 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,609,715 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 9,526,143 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
8 of 86 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 2020 Reel 52369, frame 573 | Petluri, Raghuram L.v.; Pickard, Paul Kenneth; Harrison, Benjamin; Koparkar, Shruti | Ecosense Lighting Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 21, 2022 Reel 59239, frame 614 | Ecosense Lighting Inc. | Korrus, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
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What's changing
Mar 2038
Term ends Mar 2, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
65
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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