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System And Method To Reboil A Process Stream In A Distillation System By Mixing The Stream With A Heating Medium

US 11,083,974 In force
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Term ends Nov 27, 2036 · High confidence

Filed May 16, 2019 as application 16/413,861 · Granted Aug 10, 2021
Base term plus 153 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2016 2036
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2016
Term ends
Nov 27, 2036
Granted
Aug 10, 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
153
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,471,366, to Nov 27, 2036. 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.
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 153 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Jun 27, 2016, when application 15/193,872, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 16, 2019)Jun 27, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+153 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 27, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,471,366)resolves to Nov 27, 2036, 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 orderNov 27, 2036High confidence

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Application PCT/US2017/039490PCT application
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US 11,083,974this patent
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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
May 16, 2019
Reel 49198, frame 229
Zheng, Z. Frank; King, Christopher Stephen; Nemmara, Harihara V.; Henley, Matthew S.Cameron Solutions, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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