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Methods Of Integrating LED Chips With Heat Sinks, And LED-Based Lighting Assemblies Made Thereby

US 8,981,629 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 11, 2022 (Atlantic Park Strategic Capital Fund, L.P.).

Lapsed Mar 17, 2023 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Mar 13, 2013 as application 13/802,401 · Granted Mar 17, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Mar 17, 2023
2008 2028
Clock starts
Aug 26, 2008
No longer in force
Mar 17, 2023
Granted
Mar 17, 2015
Term would have run to
Aug 26, 2028
base term after the term ends 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
8
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Aug 26, 2028: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. 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 Aug 26, 2008, when application 12/198,662, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 13, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Aug 26, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 17, 2023High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 17, 2023Medium confidence

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US 8,981,629this patent
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Application PCT/US2014/026746PCT application
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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
Mar 13, 2013
Reel 29990, frame 758
Kong, Ming; Powell, John; Bisberg, JeffreyAlbeo Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 3, 2019
Reel 48791, frame 1
General Electric CompanyCurrent Lighting Solutions, LLC F/K/A GE Lighting Solutions, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 28, 2019
Reel 51047, frame 210
Current Lighting Solutions, LLCAlly Bank, As Collateral AgentSecurity Agreement
May 27, 2020
Reel 52763, frame 643
Current Lighting Solutions, LLCAlly Bank, As Collateral AgentSecurity Agreement
Feb 2, 2022
Reel 58982, frame 844
Hubbell Lighting, Inc.; Litecontrol Corporation; Current Lighting Solutions, LLC; Daintree Neetworks Inc.; Forum, Inc.Ally Bank, As Collateral AgentSecurity Agreement
Feb 11, 2022
Reel 59034, frame 469
Hubbell Lighting, Inc.; Litecontrol Corporation; Current Lighting Solutions, LLC; Daintree Networks Inc.; Forum, Inc.Atlantic Park Strategic Capital Fund, L.P., as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Mar 17, 2022
Reel 59432, frame 592
Ally BankCurrent Lighting Solutions, LLC; Forum, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 17, 2022
reel/frame not recorded
Ally BankCurrent Lighting Solutions, LLCRelease of Security Interest
Mar 17, 2022
reel/frame not recorded
Ally BankForum, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jan 19, 2024
Reel 66355, frame 455
Hubbell Lighting, Inc.; Litecontrol Corporation; Current Lighting Solutions, LLC; Daintree Networks Inc.; Forum, Inc.Ally Bank, As Collateral AgentCorrective Assignment to Correct the Patent Number 10841994 to Patent Number 11570872 Previously Recorded on Reel 058982 Frame 0844. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement.
Jan 25, 2024
Reel 66372, frame 590
Hubbell Lighting, Inc.; Litecontrol Corporation; Current Lighting Solutions, LLC; Daintree Networks Inc.; Forum, Inc.Atlantic Park Strategic Capital Fund, L.P., as Collateral AgentCorrective Assignment to Correct the Patent Number Previously Recorded at Reel: 059034 Frame: 0469. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.

Sources

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