Lapsed Aug 1, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 11, 2036
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Monolithic 3D Inc.
Filed Apr 11, 2016 as application 15/095,187 · Granted Aug 1, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 1, 2025
2016
2036
Clock starts
Apr 11, 2016
Apr 11, 2016
No longer in force
Aug 1, 2025
Aug 1, 2025
Granted
Aug 1, 2017
Aug 1, 2017
Term would have run to
Apr 11, 2036
Apr 11, 2036
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
42
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Apr 11, 2036: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Apr 11, 2016, when this application, 15/095,187, was filed | Apr 11, 2036 | 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 | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 1, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 1, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,721,927 | this patent Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2016/052726 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,014,318 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 9,953,994 | In force Nov 2036 | Nov 2036 |
| US 10,381,328 | In force (reinstated) Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| US 10,297,599 | In force Nov 2036 | Nov 2036 |
| US 10,515,981 | In force (reinstated) Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 10,418,369 | In force (reinstated) Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
8 of 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 2016 Reel 38744, frame 479 | Or-bach, Zvi | Monolithic 3D Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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