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Device and Method for Optically Scanning and Measuring an Environment and a Method of Control

US 9,769,463 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Sep 19, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 27, 2015 as application 14/722,219 · Granted Sep 19, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 140 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 19, 2025
2015 2035
Clock starts
May 27, 2015
No longer in force
Sep 19, 2025
Granted
Sep 19, 2017
Term would have run to
Oct 14, 2035
base term patent term adjustment 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
140
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
15
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 Oct 14, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 140 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts May 27, 2015, when this application, 14/722,219, was filedMay 27, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+140 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 14, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 19, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 19, 2025High confidence

This family

US 10,070,116In force
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US 9,769,463this patent
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Application PCT/US2015/041702PCT application
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Application PCT/US2015/041992PCT application
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US 9,671,221In force
Jun 2035
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Application PCT/US2015/045843PCT application
no patent term
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US 9,602,811Lapsed on the fee record
Mar 2025
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US 9,693,040Lapsed on the fee record
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8 of 15 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
Jun 5, 2015
Reel 35840, frame 915
Hillebrand, Gerrit; Debitsch, Rasmus; Heidemann, Rolf, DR.; Ossig, Martin, DR.; Buback, Johannes, DR.Faro Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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