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Fluid Flow Monitoring Assembly Including a Flow Sensor Housing Removably Secured to a Flexible Conduit That Encapsulates the Removable Sensor

US 11,274,954 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Mar 15, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Dec 17, 2019 as application 16/718,084 · Granted Mar 15, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 88 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Mar 15, 2026
2016 2036
Clock starts
May 17, 2016
No longer in force
Mar 15, 2026
Granted
Mar 15, 2022
Term would have run to
May 17, 2036
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
88
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,309,818.
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.
9
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 May 17, 2036: its 20-year base term plus 88 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 17, 2016, when application PCT/US2016/032895, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 17, 2019)May 17, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+88 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 13, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,309,818)capped to May 17, 2036High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 15, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 15, 2026High confidence

This family

US 9,746,391Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
US 10,267,701In force
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
US 10,309,818In force
May 2036
May 2036
US 10,502,650In force
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
US 10,557,739In force
no later than May 2036
no later than May 2036
US 11,274,954this patent
Mar 2026
Mar 2026
Application 17/667,202Abandoned
not computed
not computed
7 of 9 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
Dec 8, 2020
Reel 54580, frame 754
Alphinity, LLCRepligen CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 19, 2024
Reel 68636, frame 413
Alphinity, LLCRepligen CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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