Term ended Mar 25, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 25, 2025
Held by Kla Corporation
Filed May 1, 2012 as application 13/461,753 · Granted Jul 2, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Mar 25, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Mar 25, 2005
Mar 25, 2005
Term ended
Mar 25, 2025
Mar 25, 2025
Granted
Jul 2, 2013
Jul 2, 2013
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.
3 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.
5
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. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 25, 2005, when application 11/090,408, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 1, 2012) | Mar 25, 2025 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 25, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,846,579 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2006/011204 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,168,322 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 8,679,674 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 8,475,955 | this patent Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2013 Reel 30253, frame 537 | Krasnov, Victor; Nieh, Kai Wei | Front Edge Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 30, 2022 Reel 61916, frame 676 | Front Edge Technology, Inc. | Kla Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Citations
33
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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