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Systems and Methods for Environment Sensing

US 10,368,146 In force
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Term ends Sep 30, 2036 · High confidence

Filed Sep 20, 2016 as application 15/270,442 · Granted Jul 30, 2019
Base term plus 10 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2016 2036
Clock starts
Sep 20, 2016
Term ends
Sep 30, 2036
Granted
Jul 30, 2019
base term 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
10
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.
60
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 10 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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 Sep 20, 2016, when this application, 15/270,442, was filedSep 20, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+10 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 30, 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 30, 2036High confidence

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8 of 60 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 20, 2016
Reel 39802, frame 115
Potyrailo, Radislav Alexandrovich; Sexton, Daniel White; Go, StevenGeneral Electric CompanyAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 17, 2023
Reel 65727, frame 1
General Electric CompanyGE Infrastructure Technology LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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