Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 30, 2026 (Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB).
Term ends Nov 9, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 18, 2033
Held by Lumileds LLC
Filed Feb 4, 2015 as application 14/419,579 · Granted Nov 29, 2016
Base term plus 114 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013
Term ends
Nov 9, 2033
Nov 9, 2033
Granted
Nov 29, 2016
Nov 29, 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
114
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.
3
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 114 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 Jul 18, 2013, when application PCT/IB2013/055904, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 4, 2015) | Jul 18, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +114 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 9, 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 | Nov 9, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,506,627 | this patent Nov 2033 | Nov 2033 |
| US 9,909,738 | In force Jul 2033 | Jul 2033 |
2 of 3 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 5, 2016 Reel 39595, frame 98 | QD Vision, Inc. | Capricorn-Libra Investment Group, LP | Security Interest |
| Aug 9, 2016 Reel 39383, frame 726 | Xu, Shu; Ivan, Marius Gabriel; Hikmet, Rifat Ata Mustafa; Breen, Craig Alan | Koninklijke Philips N.V.; QD Vision, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 9, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Hikmet, Rifat Ata Mustafa; Breen, Craig Alan; Xu, Shu; Ivan, Marius Gabriel | Koninklijke Philips N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 9, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Hikmet, Rifat Ata Mustafa; Breen, Craig Alan; Xu, Shu; Ivan, Marius Gabriel | QD Vision, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 30, 2016 Reel 40766, frame 928 | Capricorn-Libra Investment Group, LP | QD Vision, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 18, 2017 Reel 42047, frame 97 | QD Vision, Inc. | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 7, 2017 Reel 43108, frame 1 | Lumileds LLC | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 20, 2018 Reel 48150, frame 603 | Koninklijke Philips N.V. | Lumileds LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 5, 2023 Reel 62299, frame 338 | Lumileds LLC; Lumileds Holding B.V. | Sound Point Agency LLC | Security Interest |
| Jan 29, 2025 Reel 70046, frame 1 | Sound Point Agency LLC | Lumileds LLC; Lumileds Holding B.V. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 29, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Sound Point Agency LLC | Lumileds LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 29, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Sound Point Agency LLC | Lumileds Holding B.V. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 30, 2026 Reel 74572, frame 30 | Lumileds LLC | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2033
Term ends Nov 9, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 114 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
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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