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Method and Device for Correcting Optical Signals

US 12,059,254 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 21, 2025 (Ascent Partners Fund, LLC).

Term ends Jul 5, 2035 · Medium confidence

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

Filed Oct 4, 2021 as application 17/493,451 · Granted Aug 13, 2024
Base term plus 486 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2035
Clock starts
Mar 6, 2014
Term ends
Jul 5, 2035
Granted
Aug 13, 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
486
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
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 486 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are 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 Mar 6, 2014, when application 14/199,497, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 4, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Mar 6, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+486 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 5, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 5, 2035Medium confidence

This family

US 10,045,722In force
Mar 2034
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US 11,134,871In force
Sep 2035
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US 12,059,254this patent
Jul 2035
Jul 2035
Application 18/763,929Abandoned
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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
Oct 5, 2021
Reel 57703, frame 948
Kintz, Gregory J.; McMillan, William; Wisniewski, Natalie A.Profusa, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 21, 2025
Reel 71773, frame 828
Profusa, Inc.Ascent Partners Fund, LLCLien

Sources

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