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Materials, Fabrication Equipment, and Methods for Stable, Sensitive Photodetectors and Image Sensors Made Therefrom

US 8,138,567 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 3, 2013 (Square 1 Bank).

Term ends May 27, 2028 · High confidence

Filed Jul 20, 2009 as application 12/506,236 · Granted Mar 20, 2012
Base term plus 39 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2028
Clock starts
Apr 18, 2008
Term ends
May 27, 2028
Granted
Mar 20, 2012
base term patent term adjustment 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
39
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.
40
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 39 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Apr 18, 2008, when application 12/106,256, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 20, 2009)Apr 18, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+39 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 27, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 27, 2028High confidence

This family

US 7,923,801In force
Oct 2028
Oct 2028
Application PCT/US2009/041153PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 12/426,854Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,203,195Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2024
Jun 2024
US 8,138,567this patent
May 2028
May 2028
Application PCT/US2009/051186PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,004,057In force
Apr 2028
Apr 2028
US 8,013,412In force
Apr 2028
Apr 2028
8 of 40 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
Oct 12, 2009
Reel 23359, frame 466
Ivanov, Igor Constantin; Sargent, Edward Hartley; Tian, HuiInvisage Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 31, 2011
Reel 26373, frame 897
Ivanov, Igor Constantin; Sargent, Edward Hartley; Tian, HuiInvisage Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 4, 2012
Reel 27479, frame 419
Invisage Technologies, Inc.Triplepoint Capital LLCSecurity Agreement
Sep 3, 2013
Reel 31160, frame 411
Invisage Technologies, Inc.Square 1 BankSecurity Agreement
Sep 5, 2013
Reel 31163, frame 810
Triplepoint Capital LLCInvisage Technologies, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Oct 2, 2014
Reel 33886, frame 632
Triplepoint Capital LLCInvisage Technologies, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jul 21, 2015
Reel 36148, frame 467
Invisage Technologies, Inc.Horizon Technology Finance CorporationSecurity Interest
Mar 16, 2017
Reel 42024, frame 887
Horizon Technology Finance CorporationInvisage Technologies, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 20, 2017
Reel 41652, frame 945
Pacific Western Bank, as Successor in Interest to Square 1 BankInvisage Technologies, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

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