Term ends Mar 19, 2028 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 19, 2028
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Sunlighten, LLC
Filed Dec 23, 2020 as application 17/133,005 · Granted Aug 23, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Mar 19, 2008
Mar 19, 2008
Term ends
Mar 19, 2028
Mar 19, 2028
Granted
Aug 23, 2022
Aug 23, 2022
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 10,376,442, US 10,874,586, US 8,676,044, US 9,744,098, to Mar 19, 2028. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
8
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. 1 of 1 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 19, 2008, when application 12/051,521, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 23, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 19, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,376,442, US 10,874,586, US 8,676,044, US 9,744,098) | resolves to Mar 19, 2028, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 19, 2028 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,588,593 | In force Apr 2031 | Apr 2031 |
| US 8,676,044 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 9,744,098 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| US 10,376,442 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| US 10,874,586 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 11,419,787 | this patent Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 11,690,782 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
7 of 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2022 Reel 60179, frame 954 | O'keeffe, James T.; Zack, Aaron Michael; Ku, Martin C.; Kuklenski, Ian Richard; Murray, Steven J. | Sunlighten, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 25, 2024 Reel 68087, frame 41 | Sunlighten, Inc. | Sunlighten, LLC | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Mar 2028
Term ends Mar 19, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,376,442, US 10,874,586, US 8,676,044, US 9,744,098, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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.