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System And Method To Desalinate A Feed Water Stream By Mixing The Feed Water Stream With A Heating Medium

US 10,370,264 In force
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Term ends Jan 10, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Jun 27, 2016 as application 15/193,771 · Granted Aug 6, 2019
Base term plus 229 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2016 2037
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2016
Term ends
Jan 10, 2037
Granted
Aug 6, 2019
base term patent term adjustment 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
229
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,328,360, US 10,478,745.
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.
10
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 229 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jun 27, 2016, when this application, 15/193,771, was filedJun 27, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+229 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 11, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,328,360, US 10,478,745)capped to Jan 10, 2037High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 10, 2037High confidence

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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
Jun 28, 2016
Reel 39025, frame 441
Zheng, Z. Frank; King, Christopher Stephen; Nemmara, Harihara V.Cameron Solutions, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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