Term ends Jul 15, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 19, 2035
Held by Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc.
Filed Nov 24, 2020 as application 17/103,587 · Granted Apr 30, 2024
Base term plus 696 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2037
Clock starts
Aug 19, 2015
Aug 19, 2015
Term ends
Jul 15, 2037
Jul 15, 2037
Granted
Apr 30, 2024
Apr 30, 2024
base term
patent term adjustment
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
696
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
14
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 696 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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 Aug 19, 2015, when application 14/829,927, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 24, 2020) | Aug 19, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +696 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 15, 2037 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 15, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,938,182 | In force Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
| US 11,437,775 | In force Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
| US 10,879,673 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| US 11,437,774 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2020/038504 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,973,308 | this patent Jul 2037 | Jul 2037 |
| Application 17/163,903 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,283,790 | In force Sep 2037 | Sep 2037 |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 2020 Reel 54464, frame 87 | Raring, James W.; Rudy, Paul; Goutain, Eric; Trottier, Troy; McLaurin, Melvin; Harrison, James; Heikman, Sten; Cantore, Michael | Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 15, 2021 Reel 56001, frame 313 | Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. | Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2037
Term ends Jul 15, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 696 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2024 in our data have been cited yet, so we show the count and do not rank on it.
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