Collateral for a security interest recorded May 30, 2025 (U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association).

Term ends Feb 21, 2029 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Hydrafacial LLC

Filed Aug 8, 2014 as application 14/455,762 · Granted May 9, 2017

Base term plus 23 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Feb 21, 2029

2009 2029

Clock starts
Jan 29, 2009

Term ends
Feb 21, 2029

Granted
May 9, 2017

base term patent term adjustment 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

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,814,836, to Feb 21, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

2 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 23 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 2 of 2 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.

Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Jan 29, 2009, when application 12/362,353, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 8, 2014)	Jan 29, 2029	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+23 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Feb 21, 2029	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,814,836)	resolves to Feb 21, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Feb 21, 2029	High confidence

This family

US 9,056,193	In force Nov 2030	Nov 2030
US 8,814,836	In force May 2029	May 2029
US 9,642,997	this patent Feb 2029	Feb 2029
US 11,020,577	In force Jan 2029	Jan 2029
US 10,556,097	In force Jan 2029	Jan 2029
Application 16/784,850	Pending not computed	not computed
US 12,161,830	In force Jan 2029	Jan 2029
US 12,186,513	In force Jan 2029	Jan 2029

8 of 12 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
Jul 11, 2016 Reel 39302, frame 923	Edge Systems Corporation	Edge Systems LLC	Converted
Oct 21, 2016 Reel 40087, frame 852	Ignon, Roger; Nicolas, Ed F.	Edge Systems Corporation	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 6, 2016 Reel 40538, frame 26	Edge Systems Intermediate Corporation; Edge Systems LLC	Silver Point Finance, LLC	Security Interest
May 11, 2021 Reel 56675, frame 606	Silver Point Finance, LLC	Edge Systems Intermediate, LLC; Edge Systems LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 11, 2021 reel/frame not recorded	Silver Point Finance, LLC	Edge Systems Intermediate, LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 11, 2021 reel/frame not recorded	Silver Point Finance, LLC	Edge Systems LLC	Release of Security Interest
Jan 3, 2022 Reel 58526, frame 897	Edge Systems LLC	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent	Security Interest
Aug 15, 2022 Reel 61178, frame 138	Edge Systems LLC	Hydrafacial LLC	Change of Name
Aug 6, 2024 Reel 68378, frame 60	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent	Hydrafacial LLC (Formerly Known as Edge Systems LLC)	Release of Security Interest in Patents at Reel/Frame No. 58526/0897
May 30, 2025 Reel 71475, frame 338	Hydrafacial LLC	U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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What's changing

Feb 2029

Term ends Feb 21, 2029. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 23 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,814,836, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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