Also listed on Ideal Industries Lighting LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 4, 2026 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 30, 2027
Held by Led-IP Management, LLC
Filed Jun 1, 2009 as application 12/475,850 · Granted Sep 13, 2016
Base term plus 283 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Nov 30, 2007
Nov 30, 2007
Term ends
Dec 4, 2026
Dec 4, 2026
Granted
Sep 13, 2016
Sep 13, 2016
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
283
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,213,940, US 7,828,460, US 8,513,875.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
15
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 283 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Nov 30, 2007, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jun 1, 2009); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 30, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +283 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 8, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,213,940, US 7,828,460, US 8,513,875) | capped to Dec 4, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: PCTUS2007086027 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 4, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,213,940 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2007/009462 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,513,875 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2007/086027 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,084,328 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 9,441,793 | this patent Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,998,444 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| US 7,821,194 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
8 of 15 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2009 Reel 23078, frame 61 | Van De Ven, Antony Paul; Negley, Gerald H. | Cree Led Lighting Solutions, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 14, 2010 Reel 25137, frame 15 | Cree Led Lighting Solutions, Inc. | Cree, Inc. | Merger |
| Aug 1, 2019 Reel 49927, frame 473 | Cree, Inc. | Ideal Industries Lighting LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 13, 2023 Reel 64897, frame 413 | Ideal Industries Lighting LLC | FGI Worldwide LLC | Security Interest |
| May 16, 2026 Reel 76279, frame 668 | Clna Holdings, LLC; Cree Lighting USA LLC; Cree Lighting Canada Corp.; E-Conolight LLC | Lumen Acquisition Holdings, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 22, 2026 Reel 75624, frame 358 | Lumen Acquisition Holdings, LLC | Led-IP Management, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 4, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 283 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,213,940, US 7,828,460, US 8,513,875.
Citations
109
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2016 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.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.