Also listed on Hays AG, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Aug 24, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 8, 2030
Held by Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
Filed Jun 15, 2012 as application 13/525,233 · Granted Nov 15, 2016
Base term plus 1020 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2033
Clock starts
Nov 8, 2010
Nov 8, 2010
Term ends
Aug 24, 2033
Aug 24, 2033
Granted
Nov 15, 2016
Nov 15, 2016
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,020
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.
2
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 1020 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 Nov 8, 2010, when application PCT/EP2010/067003, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 15, 2012) | Nov 8, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1020 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 24, 2033 | 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 | Aug 24, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,494,718 | this patent Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
1 of 2 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 20, 2013 Reel 31045, frame 600 | Braun, Gerhard | Hays AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 28, 2013 Reel 31097, frame 619 | Hays AG | Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 24, 2014 Reel 32506, frame 52 | Weber, Joern; Dodoc, Aurelian; Migura, Sascha; Zaczek, Christoph; Paul, Hans-jochen; Clauss, Wilfried; Muellender, Stephan; Loercher, Roland; Blanckenhagen, Gisela | Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Aug 2033
Term ends Aug 24, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1020 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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
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