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US 11,674,915 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Also listed on General Electric Company, a Corp. of NY, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends Nov 16, 2026 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Aug 17, 2020 as application 16/995,427 · Granted Jun 13, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2006 2026
Clock starts
Nov 16, 2006
Term ends
Nov 16, 2026
Granted
Jun 13, 2023
base term 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.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
60
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. No maintenance fee can end this term early. Confidence: Medium. 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 Nov 16, 2006, when application 11/560,476, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 17, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Nov 16, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo maintenance fee can end the term earlyIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 16, 2026Medium confidence

This family

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Jun 2031
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Application 12/325,653Abandoned
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US 8,364,419In force
Aug 2030
Aug 2030
Application 12/824,436Abandoned
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US 8,936,191In force
Nov 2033
Nov 2033
US 8,542,023In force
Dec 2031
Dec 2031
Application 12/977,568Abandoned
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US 8,542,024In force
Dec 2031
Dec 2031
8 of 60 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
Aug 17, 2020
Reel 53515, frame 453
Potyrailo, Radislav Alexandrovich; Sexton, Daniel White; Go, Steven Y.General Electric CompanyAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 17, 2023
Reel 65727, frame 1
General Electric CompanyGE Infrastructure Technology LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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