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Water Desalination Using Freeze Crystallization and Acoustic Pressure Shock Waves

US 10,246,349 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 26, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).

Term ends Sep 25, 2036 · Medium confidence

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

Filed Nov 14, 2016 as application 15/350,216 · Granted Apr 2, 2019
Base term plus 48 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2016 2036
Clock starts
Aug 8, 2016
Term ends
Sep 25, 2036
Granted
Apr 2, 2019
base term patent term adjustment fee events 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
48
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.
7
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 48 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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 Aug 8, 2016, when application 15/230,765, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 14, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Aug 8, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+48 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 25, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 25, 2036Medium confidence

This family

US 10,053,376Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2026
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US 10,246,349this patent
Sep 2036
Sep 2036
US 10,457,571In force
Oct 2036
Oct 2036
US 10,562,793In force
Aug 2036
Aug 2036
Application 16/504,607Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 11,254,589In force
Apr 2037
Apr 2037
US 12,110,238In force
Oct 2036
Oct 2036
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
Feb 15, 2017
Reel 41258, frame 469
Cioanta, Iulian; Jackson, JohnSanuwave, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 7, 2020
Reel 53436, frame 953
Sanuwave, Inc.NH Expansion Credit Fund Holdings LPSecurity Interest
Sep 26, 2025
Reel 72385, frame 128
Sanuwave, Inc.Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Security Interest
Sep 30, 2025
Reel 72417, frame 134
NH Expansion Credit Fund Holdings LPSanuwave, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

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