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Apparatus, System and Method of Operating an Additive Manufacturing Nozzle

US 11,878,468 In force
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Term ends Feb 17, 2038 · High confidence

Filed Sep 20, 2021 as application 17/479,810 · Granted Jan 23, 2024
Base term plus 137 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2038
Clock starts
Oct 3, 2017
Term ends
Feb 17, 2038
Granted
Jan 23, 2024
base term patent term adjustment 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
137
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.
11
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 137 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Oct 3, 2017, when application 15/723,503, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 20, 2021)Oct 3, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+137 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 17, 2038High 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 orderFeb 17, 2038High confidence

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8 of 11 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
Sep 26, 2023
Reel 65034, frame 485
Macneish, William J.; Gjovik, ErikJabil Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 2, 2025
Reel 72886, frame 877
Jabil Inc.3D Print Innovations, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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