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Methods and Devices for Manipulating Temperature

US 11,256,309 In force
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Term ends Nov 17, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Apr 24, 2019 as application 16/344,577 · Granted Feb 22, 2022
Base term plus 8 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
Nov 9, 2017
Term ends
Nov 17, 2037
Granted
Feb 22, 2022
base term fee events 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
8
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.
5
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 8 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 9, 2017, when application PCT/US2017/060822, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 24, 2019)Nov 9, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+8 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 17, 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 orderNov 17, 2037High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2017/060822PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,256,309this patent
Nov 2037
Nov 2037
US 11,755,083In force
no later than Mar 2038
no later than Mar 2038
US 12,169,427In force
no later than Nov 2037
no later than Nov 2037
Application 18/939,502Pending
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
Jul 8, 2019
Reel 49690, frame 581
Smith, Matthew J.; Warren, Kristen; Cohen-tanugi, David; Shames, SamuelEmbr Labs Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 3, 2023
Reel 63208, frame 482
Embr Labs Inc.Embr Labs IP LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 3, 2023
Reel 63210, frame 582
Embr Labs IP LLCAnkura Trust Company, LLCSecurity Interest

Sources

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

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