Term ended Apr 5, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 25, 2025
Held by Kla Corporation
Filed May 19, 2010 as application 12/783,520 · Granted May 1, 2012
Base term plus 11 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 5, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Mar 25, 2005
Mar 25, 2005
Term ended
Apr 5, 2025
Apr 5, 2025
Granted
May 1, 2012
May 1, 2012
base term
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
11
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.
5
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 11 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 25, 2005, when application 11/090,408, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 19, 2010) | Mar 25, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +11 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 5, 2025 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 5, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,846,579 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2006/011204 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,168,322 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 8,679,674 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 8,475,955 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 2012 Reel 27518, frame 754 | Krasnov, Victor; Nieh, Kai-wei | Front Edge Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 30, 2022 Reel 61916, frame 676 | Front Edge Technology, Inc. | Kla Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Note
The 11 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
40
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.