Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 11, 2026 (Salem Five Cents Savings Bank).
Term ends Sep 14, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 8, 2032
Held by Lensar, Inc.
Filed Jun 8, 2012 as application 13/492,788 · Granted Feb 16, 2016
Base term plus 98 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Jun 8, 2012
Jun 8, 2012
Term ends
Sep 14, 2032
Sep 14, 2032
Granted
Feb 16, 2016
Feb 16, 2016
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
98
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
7
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 98 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Jun 8, 2012, when this application, 13/492,788, was filed | Jun 8, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +98 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 14, 2032 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 14, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,259,354 | this patent Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| US 11,147,708 | In force Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| US 11,571,335 | In force Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| US 12,350,196 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 12,343,284 | In force no later than Jun 2032 | no later than Jun 2032 |
| Application 18/105,900 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 19/255,251 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2013 Reel 30945, frame 289 | Horvath, Christopher; Vera, Vanessa I | Kelotec, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 4, 2013 Reel 31712, frame 474 | Kelo Tec, LLC | Kelo Tec, Inc. | Merger |
| May 31, 2019 Reel 49329, frame 544 | Kelo Tec Inc. | Lensar, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 11, 2026 Reel 76463, frame 914 | Lensar, Inc. | Salem Five Cents Savings Bank | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2032
Term ends Sep 14, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 98 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
37
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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