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Gate-All-Around (GAA) Device Including a Superlattice

US 11,978,771 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Jun 30, 2041 · Medium confidence

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

Filed Dec 21, 2022 as application 18/069,278 · Granted May 7, 2024
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2021 2041
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2021
Term ends
Jun 30, 2041
Granted
May 7, 2024
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.
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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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Jun 30, 2021, when application 17/305,098, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 21, 2022); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jun 30, 2041High 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 events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 30, 2041Medium confidence

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Application 63/047,356Provisional application
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US 11,837,634In force
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Application PCT/US2021/040059PCT application
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US 11,978,771this patent
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US 12,142,641In force
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US 12,119,380In force
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US 12,707,690In force
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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
Dec 31, 2022
Reel 62248, frame 548
Weeks, Keith Doran; Cody, Nyles Wynn; Hytha, Marek; Mears, Robert J.; Stephenson, Robert John; Takeuchi, HidekiAtomera IncorporatedAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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