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Magnetic actuated contact using a coil system

US 10,082,413 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Sep 25, 2022 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant M Micro Technologies, Inc. · find this owner
Filed Aug 7, 2015 as application 14/820,959 · Granted Sep 25, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 431 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 25, 2022
2015 2036
Clock starts
May 26, 2015
No longer in force
Sep 25, 2022
Granted
Sep 25, 2018
Term would have run to
Jul 30, 2036
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
431
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.

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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 filingClock starts May 26, 2015, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Aug 7, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)May 26, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+431 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 30, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 25, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 25, 2022From the USPTO record

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