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Method for Optically Measuring Three-Dimensional Coordinates and Calibration of a Three-Dimensional Measuring Device

US 9,693,040 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jun 27, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

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Filed Sep 3, 2015 as application 14/844,691 · Granted Jun 27, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jun 27, 2025
2015 2035
Clock starts
May 15, 2015
No longer in force
Jun 27, 2025
Granted
Jun 27, 2017
Term would have run to
May 15, 2035
base term after the term ends 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.
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Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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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.
15
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to May 15, 2035: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts May 15, 2015, when application 14/712,993, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 3, 2015)May 15, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 27, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 27, 2025High confidence

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US 10,070,116In force
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US 9,671,221In force
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Application PCT/US2015/045843PCT application
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US 9,693,040this patent
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Sep 29, 2015
Reel 36683, frame 201
Hillebrand, Gerrit; Heidemann, Rolf, DR.; Ossig, Martin, DR.Faro Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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