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Catalyst Mixture for the Treatment of Waste Gas

US 11,369,922 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jun 28, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Cppe Carbon Process & Plant Engineering S.A.
Filed Oct 3, 2018 as application 16/091,096 · Granted Jun 28, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 322 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 28, 2026
2017 2038
Clock starts
Apr 4, 2017
No longer in force
Jun 28, 2026
Granted
Jun 28, 2022
Term would have run to
Feb 20, 2038
base term patent term adjustment 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
322
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.

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.
Step Input Date after this step Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 4, 2017, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Oct 3, 2018)Apr 4, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+322 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 20, 2038High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 28, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 28, 2026Medium confidence

Sources

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

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Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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