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Techniques for Optimally Sensing Full Containers

US 11,054,545 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Also listed on Waste Harmonics, LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 29, 2023 (Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.).

Term ends May 26, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Oct 21, 2019 as application 16/658,900 · Granted Jul 6, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
May 26, 2017
Term ends
May 26, 2037
Granted
Jul 6, 2021
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,451,768, to May 26, 2037. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
2
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 26, 2017, when application 15/606,758, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 21, 2019)May 26, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,451,768)resolves to May 26, 2037, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 26, 2037High confidence

This family

US 10,451,768In force
Jun 2037
Jun 2037
US 11,054,545this patent
May 2037
May 2037
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
Dec 9, 2021
Reel 58344, frame 563
One Plus Systems, Inc. /Dba/ ContelligentWaste Harmonics, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 16, 2022
Reel 59141, frame 249
Devitt, Seamus; Walsh, BrendanOneplus Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 31, 2022
Reel 59462, frame 648
Waste Harmonics Holdings, LLCCitizens Bank, N.a.Security Interest
Sep 26, 2023
Reel 65028, frame 618
Citibank, N.a.Waste Harmonics Holdings, LLC; Waste Harmonics, LLCRelease of Security Interests in Patents
Sep 26, 2023
reel/frame not recorded
Citibank, N.a.Waste Harmonics Holdings, LLCRelease of Security Interests in Patents
Sep 26, 2023
reel/frame not recorded
Citibank, N.a.Waste Harmonics, LLCRelease of Security Interests in Patents
Sep 28, 2023
Reel 65049, frame 466
Citizens Bank, N.a.Waste Harmonics Holdings, LLC; Waste Harmonics, LLCCorrective Assignment to Correct the Name of the Conveying Party from Citibank, N.A., to Citizens Bank, N.A. Previously Recorded on Reel 065028 Frame 0618. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interests in Patents.
Sep 28, 2023
reel/frame not recorded
Citizens Bank, N.a.Waste Harmonics Holdings, LLCCorrective Assignment to Correct the Name of the Conveying Party from Citibank, N.A., to Citizens Bank, N.A. Previously Recorded on Reel 065028 Frame 0618. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interests in Patents.
Sep 28, 2023
reel/frame not recorded
Citizens Bank, N.a.Waste Harmonics, LLCCorrective Assignment to Correct the Name of the Conveying Party from Citibank, N.A., to Citizens Bank, N.A. Previously Recorded on Reel 065028 Frame 0618. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interests in Patents.
Sep 29, 2023
Reel 65086, frame 739
Waste Harmonics, LLCWells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement

Sources

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

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