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US 10,040,011 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 7, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Mar 15, 2013 as application 13/844,754 · Granted Aug 7, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 211 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 7, 2026
2013 2033
Clock starts
Mar 15, 2013
No longer in force
Aug 7, 2026
Granted
Aug 7, 2018
Term would have run to
Oct 12, 2033
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
211
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.
57
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 12, 2033: its 20-year base term plus 211 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Mar 15, 2013, when this application, 13/844,754, was filedMar 15, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+211 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 12, 2033High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 7, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 7, 2026High confidence

This family

US 10,040,011this patent
Aug 2026
Aug 2026
US 9,272,234In force
Jul 2033
Jul 2033
Application PCT/US2013/050729PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,458,450In force
Mar 2033
Mar 2033
Application PCT/US2013/059640PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,416,344In force
Oct 2033
Oct 2033
Application PCT/US2014/015382PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application PCT/US2014/046412PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
8 of 57 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
Jul 2, 2014
Reel 33234, frame 917
Lipkens, Bart; Dionne, Jason; Kennedy, Thomas J., IIIFlodesign Sonics, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 3, 2022
Reel 59317, frame 507
Flodesign Sonics, Inc.Flodesign Sonics, Inc.Change of Address

Sources

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

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