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Rare Gas-Halogen Excimer Lasers with Baffles

US 7,257,144 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 6, 2021 (Midcap Financial Trust).

Term ended Apr 19, 2025 · High confidence

Filed Feb 11, 2004 as application 10/776,463 · Granted Aug 14, 2007
Base term plus 433 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Apr 19, 2025
2004 2026
Clock starts
Feb 11, 2004
Term ended
Apr 19, 2025
Granted
Aug 14, 2007
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
433
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
46
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 433 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 11, 2004, when this application, 10/776,463, was filedFeb 11, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+433 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 19, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 19, 2025High confidence

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US 7,891,361Term ended
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8 of 46 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
Jun 20, 2005
Reel 16705, frame 276
Levatter, Jeffrey I.PhotomedexAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 16, 2010
Reel 24244, frame 480
Photomedex, Inc.; Procyte Corporation; Photo Therapeutics, Inc.; SLT Technology, Inc.Perseus Partners Vii, L.p.Security Agreement
Dec 13, 2011
Reel 27374, frame 134
Perseus Partners Vii, L.p.Photomedex, Inc.; Procyte Corporation; Photo Therapeutics, Inc.; SLT Technologies, Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patents
Dec 13, 2011
reel/frame not recorded
Perseus Partners Vii, L.p.Photomedex, Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patents
Dec 13, 2011
reel/frame not recorded
Perseus Partners Vii, L.p.Procyte CorporationRelease of Security Interest in Patents
Dec 13, 2011
reel/frame not recorded
Perseus Partners Vii, L.p.Photo Therapeutics, Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patents
Dec 13, 2011
reel/frame not recorded
Perseus Partners Vii, L.p.SLT Technologies, Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patents
May 14, 2014
Reel 32892, frame 586
Photomedex, Inc.; Gatorade Acquisition Corp.; Radiancy, Inc.; Photomedex Technology, Inc.; Lumiere, Inc.JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative AgentSecurity Interest
Jun 23, 2015
Reel 36007, frame 222
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Photomedex, Inc.; Gatorade Acquisition Corp.; Radiancy, Inc.; Photomedex Technology, Inc.; Lumiere, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 23, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Photomedex, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 23, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Gatorade Acquisition Corp.Release of Security Interest
Jun 23, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Radiancy, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 23, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Photomedex Technology, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 23, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Lumiere, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Aug 3, 2015
Reel 36236, frame 201
Photomedex, Inc.Photomedex Technology, Inc.Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment
Aug 3, 2015
Reel 36236, frame 243
Photomedex Technology, Inc.Mela Sciences, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 31, 2015
Reel 37391, frame 451
Mela Sciences, Inc.Midcap Financial Trust, As AgentSecurity Interest
May 30, 2018
Reel 46269, frame 8
Mela Sciences, Inc.Strata Skin Sciences, Inc.Change of Name
Jan 20, 2020
Reel 51558, frame 510
Midcap Financial TrustStrata Skin Sciences, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Oct 6, 2021
Reel 57717, frame 796
Strata Skin Sciences, Inc.Midcap Financial TrustSecurity Interest

Sources

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

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