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Visual Display Unit Illumination

US 8,149,353 Term ended
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Term ended Aug 2, 2025 · High confidence

Filed Oct 20, 2004 as application 10/492,624 · Granted Apr 3, 2012
Base term plus 1026 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Aug 2, 2025
2002 2026
Clock starts
Oct 11, 2002
Term ended
Aug 2, 2025
Granted
Apr 3, 2012
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
1,026
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.
51
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 1026 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

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 11, 2002, when application PCT/NZ2002/000213, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 20, 2004)Oct 11, 2022High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1026 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 2, 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 orderAug 2, 2025High confidence

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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 20, 2004
Reel 16044, frame 934
Bell, Gareth Paul; Engel, Gabriel DamonDeep Video Imaging LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 26, 2005
Reel 16662, frame 923
Deep Video Imaging LimitedPuredepth LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 6, 2005
Reel 16961, frame 427
Deep Video Imaging LimitedPuredepth LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 30, 2015
Reel 35997, frame 146
Puredepth LimitedK One W One LimitedSecurity Interest
Apr 5, 2022
Reel 59596, frame 413
Puredepth Limited (Also Referred to as Pure Depth Limited); Puredepth Inc. (Also Referred to as Pure Depth)Aptiv Technologies LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 11, 2024
Reel 66551, frame 219
Aptiv Manufacturing Management Services S.À R.L.Aptiv Technologies AGAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 11, 2024
Reel 66566, frame 173
Aptiv Technologies (2) S.À R.L.Aptiv Manufacturing Management Services S.À R.L.Merger
Feb 11, 2024
Reel 66746, frame 1
Aptiv Technologies LimitedAptiv Technologies (2) S.À R.L.Entity Conversion

Sources

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