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Sofc-Conduction

US 11,784,331 In force
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Term ends Oct 15, 2035 · Medium confidence

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

Filed Feb 3, 2021 as application 17/166,476 · Granted Oct 10, 2023
Base term plus 373 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2035
Clock starts
Oct 7, 2014
Term ends
Oct 15, 2035
Granted
Oct 10, 2023
base term patent term adjustment 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
373
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
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 373 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Oct 7, 2014, when application PCT/US2014/059447, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 3, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Oct 7, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+373 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 15, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 15, 2035Medium confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2014/059447PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,446,858In force
Apr 2037
Apr 2037
US 10,916,784In force
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
US 11,784,331this patent
Oct 2035
Oct 2035
US 12,512,488In force
Mar 2035
Mar 2035
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 24, 2023
Reel 64690, frame 131
Palumbo, Nathan; Osenar, Paul; Persky, JoshuaProtonex Technology CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 24, 2023
Reel 64690, frame 278
Protonex Technology CorporationUpstart Power, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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