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Flexible Welding Apparatus

US 10,960,499 In force
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Term ends Jun 14, 2039 · High confidence

Filed Mar 27, 2019 as application 16/366,386 · Granted Mar 30, 2021
Base term plus 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2019 2039
Clock starts
Mar 27, 2019
Term ends
Jun 14, 2039
Granted
Mar 30, 2021
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
79
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.
13
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 79 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 Mar 27, 2019, when this application, 16/366,386, was filedMar 27, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+79 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 14, 2039High 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 orderJun 14, 2039High confidence

This family

US 11,027,530In force
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Application 16/356,721Abandoned
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US 10,960,499this patent
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Application PCT/US2020/022957PCT application
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Application PCT/US2020/022955PCT application
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US 12,012,031In force
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US 11,535,009In force
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8 of 13 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
Mar 29, 2019
Reel 48736, frame 148
Thompson, Joseph B.; Romanowski, Steven J.; Lozier, Todd B.Jayco, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 22, 2020
Reel 54721, frame 355
Jayco, Inc.Thor Tech, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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