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Linear Solid-State Lighting With Ballast Free Of Electric Shock Hazard

US 9,277,604 In force
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Term ends Jun 16, 2032 · High confidence

Held by Aleddra Inc.
Filed Nov 7, 2014 as application 14/536,475 · Granted Mar 1, 2016
Base term plus 1 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2012 2032
Clock starts
Jun 15, 2012
Term ends
Jun 16, 2032
Granted
Mar 1, 2016
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
1
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
74
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 runs 1 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 15, 2012, when application 13/525,249, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 7, 2014)Jun 15, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 16, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 16, 2032High confidence

This family

US 8,749,167Lapsed on the fee record
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Application 13/535,249Abandoned
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Application PCT/US2012/046918PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,163,818In force
Jan 2033
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US 9,277,603In force
Sep 2032
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US 9,277,604this patent
Jun 2032
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US 9,288,867In force
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US 9,176,345In force
Jun 2032
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8 of 74 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Nov 7, 2014
Reel 34130, frame 871
Hsia, Chungho; Shen, Pai-shengLightel Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 10, 2018
Reel 45497, frame 287
Lightel Technologies Inc.Aleddra Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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