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Stepped Optical Bridge for Connecting Semiconductor Waveguides

US 11,002,907 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Feb 7, 2037 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Jan 11, 2019 as application 16/245,615 · Granted May 11, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
Feb 7, 2017
Term ends
Feb 7, 2037
Granted
May 11, 2021
base term 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.
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.
10
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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 7, 2017, when application 15/426,366, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 11, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Feb 7, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 7, 2037Medium confidence

This family

US 10,509,163In force
Feb 2037
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US 10,234,626In force
Feb 2037
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US 10,732,349In force
Apr 2037
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Application PCT/US2017/016994PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application PCT/US2017/016968PCT application
no patent term
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Application PCT/US2017/016958PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,002,907this patent
Feb 2037
Feb 2037
Application 16/690,523Abandoned
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8 of 10 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jan 11, 2019
Reel 47970, frame 562
Lambert, DamienSkorpios Technologies, Inc.Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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