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Enhanced Solar Panels, Liquid Delivery Systems and Associated Processes for Solar Energy Systems

US 10,116,257 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 30, 2022 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Sep 23, 2016 as application 15/275,263 · Granted Oct 30, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 30, 2022
2008 2028
Clock starts
Mar 26, 2008
No longer in force
Oct 30, 2022
Granted
Oct 30, 2018
Term would have run to
Mar 26, 2028
base term after the term ends 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
19
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 Mar 26, 2028: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. 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 26, 2008, when application 12/056,235, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 23, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Mar 26, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 30, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 30, 2022Medium confidence

This family

US 7,772,716In force
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US 8,035,249In force
no later than Mar 2028
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US 8,427,009In force
Mar 2028
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US 9,200,818Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2023
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US 9,196,770Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2023
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US 9,812,859Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2025
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US 10,250,184In force
Mar 2028
Mar 2028
US 10,116,257this patent
Oct 2022
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8 of 19 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
Sep 26, 2017
Reel 43706, frame 492
Newdoll, Ronald M.; Shaver, Argil E., IINewdoll Enterprises LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 26, 2017
Reel 44018, frame 296
Newdoll Enterprises LLCAccurate Solar Power, LLCChange of Name

Sources

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