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Target Apparatus and Method of Making a Measurement with the Target Apparatus

US 8,467,072 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jun 18, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

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Filed Feb 29, 2012 as application 13/407,983 · Granted Jun 18, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jun 18, 2025
2012 2032
Clock starts
Feb 10, 2012
No longer in force
Jun 18, 2025
Granted
Jun 18, 2013
Term would have run to
Feb 10, 2032
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
39
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Feb 10, 2032: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 10, 2012, when application 13/370,339, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 29, 2012)Feb 10, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 18, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 18, 2025High confidence

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US 8,525,983Lapsed on the fee record
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US 8,422,034In force
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US 8,537,371Lapsed on the fee record
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US 8,467,072this patent
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Application PCT/US2012/027083PCT application
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US 8,619,265Lapsed on the fee record
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Application PCT/US2012/028984PCT application
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8 of 39 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
Apr 2, 2012
Reel 27972, frame 25
Cramer, Peter G.; Bridges, Robert E.; Steffensen, Nils P.; Mehler, Robert C.; Steffey, Kenneth; Hoffer, John M., JR.; Lasley, Daniel G.Faro Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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