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Apparatus for Holding a Substrate Within a Secondary Device

US 11,237,377 In force
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Term ends Feb 9, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Sep 19, 2017 as application 15/708,769 · Granted Feb 1, 2022
Base term plus 630 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2015 2037
Clock starts
May 21, 2015
Term ends
Feb 9, 2037
Granted
Feb 1, 2022
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
630
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
7
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 630 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 21, 2015, when application 14/718,381, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 19, 2017)May 21, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+630 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 9, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 9, 2037High confidence

This family

US 9,857,580In force
Nov 2035
Nov 2035
US 11,300,769In force
Oct 2037
Oct 2037
US 10,802,260In force
Sep 2035
Sep 2035
US 10,890,748In force
Apr 2036
Apr 2036
US 11,422,352In force
Dec 2037
Dec 2037
US 11,237,377this patent
Feb 2037
Feb 2037
Application 15/708,937Abandoned
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
Oct 10, 2018
Reel 47127, frame 335
Quarre, Steve; Stewart, DavidRarecyte, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 4, 2019
Reel 48799, frame 531
Rarecyte, Inc.Western Alliance Bank, An Arizona CorporationSecurity Interest
Dec 30, 2019
Reel 51445, frame 343
Western Alliance Bank, An Arizona CorporationRarecyte, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

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