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Surface Cleaning Apparatus and Tray

US 11,147,426 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 19, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Bissell Inc.
Filed Dec 15, 2020 as application 17/122,690 · Granted Oct 19, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 19, 2025
2019 2039
Clock starts
Jun 21, 2019
No longer in force
Oct 19, 2025
Granted
Oct 19, 2021
Term would have run to
Jun 21, 2039
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
8
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Jun 21, 2039: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. 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 21, 2019, when application PCT/US2019/038423, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 15, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jun 21, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 19, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 19, 2025Medium confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2019/038423PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,096,544In force
Jun 2039
Jun 2039
US 11,147,426this patent
Oct 2025
Oct 2025
US 10,973,383In force
Jun 2039
Jun 2039
Application 17/228,232Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 12,213,633In force
Jun 2039
Jun 2039
Application 17/488,406Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application 18/733,257Pending
not computed
not computed
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 15, 2020
Reel 54655, frame 795
Nguyen, Tom Minh; Boles, Jake; Resch, Jacob; Wong, Ying Chun; Tang, Jian Hua; Wang, YunfuBissell Homecare, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 15, 2020
Reel 54655, frame 886
Bissell Homecare, Inc.Bissell Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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