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Method for Providing Information on the Cooking of a Food Item, and Associated Apparatus

US 11,206,945 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Dec 28, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by SEB S.A.
Filed Jul 15, 2014 as application 14/372,374 · Granted Dec 28, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Dec 28, 2025
2013 2033
Clock starts
Jan 9, 2013
No longer in force
Dec 28, 2025
Granted
Dec 28, 2021
Term would have run to
Jan 9, 2033
base term after the term ends 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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
12
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 Jan 9, 2033: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 9, 2013, when application PCT/FR2013/050046, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 15, 2014)Jan 9, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh 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 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Dec 28, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 28, 2025High confidence

This family

US 9,976,225Lapsed on the fee record
May 2026
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US 11,206,945this patent
Dec 2025
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US 11,197,579Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2025
Dec 2025
US 10,368,691In force
Sep 2035
Sep 2035
Application 15/957,109Abandoned
not computed
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US 11,058,252In force
Sep 2035
Sep 2035
US 11,464,359In force
Jan 2033
Jan 2033
US 11,478,107In force
Jan 2033
Jan 2033
8 of 12 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
Jan 14, 2015
Reel 34707, frame 697
Volatier, Sebastien; Excoffier, DominiqueSEB S.A.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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