Also listed on Cooper Lighting, LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 15, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 15, 2031
Held by Signify Holding B.V.
Filed Apr 17, 2015 as application 14/690,188 · Granted Mar 28, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Mar 15, 2011
Mar 15, 2011
Term ends
Mar 15, 2031
Mar 15, 2031
Granted
Mar 28, 2017
Mar 28, 2017
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,010,956, to Mar 15, 2031. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
6
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Mar 15, 2011, when application 13/048,435, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 17, 2015) | Mar 15, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,010,956) | resolves to Mar 15, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Mar 15, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,010,956 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 9,605,842 | this patent Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 10,378,738 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 10,527,264 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 10,677,429 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| Application 16/889,054 | Abandoned 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2015 Reel 36900, frame 843 | Davis, Jared Michael | Cooper Technologies Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 18, 2016 Reel 39180, frame 710 | Cooper Technologies Company | Cooper Lighting, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 19, 2018 Reel 47543, frame 585 | Cooper Lighting, LLC | Eaton Intelligent Power Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 18, 2020 Reel 52681, frame 475 | Eaton Intelligent Power Limited | Signify Holding B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 12, 2020 Reel 55965, frame 721 | Eaton Intelligent Power Limited | Signify Holding B.V. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Application Numbers 12183490, 12183499, 12494944, 12961315, 13528561, 13600790, 13826197, 14605880, 15186648, Recorded in Error Previously Recorded on Reel 052681 Frame 0475. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
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What's changing
Mar 2031
Term ends Mar 15, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,010,956, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
68
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2017 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.