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Dishwasher with Discretely Directable Tubular Spray Elements

US 11,058,279 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 13, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Dec 9, 2019 as application 16/707,181 · Granted Jul 13, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jul 13, 2025
2017 2037
Clock starts
Sep 29, 2017
No longer in force
Jul 13, 2025
Granted
Jul 13, 2021
Term would have run to
Sep 29, 2037
base term after the term ends 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,531,781, to Sep 29, 2037. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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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.
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Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Sep 29, 2037: 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. 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 29, 2017, when application 15/721,099, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 9, 2019)Sep 29, 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 10,531,781)resolves to Sep 29, 2037, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 13, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 13, 2025High confidence

This family

US 10,531,781In force
Nov 2037
Nov 2037
US 11,058,279this patent
Jul 2025
Jul 2025
US 11,800,963In force
Sep 2037
Sep 2037
US 12,290,225In force
Nov 2038
Nov 2038
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 10, 2019
Reel 51227, frame 122
Digman, Robert M.; Wilson, Mark W.; Wetzel, TimothyMidea Group Co., Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

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