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Apparatus, System and Method of Process Monitoring and Control in an Additive Manufacturing Environment

US 12,049,044 In force
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Term ends Feb 28, 2038 · High confidence

Filed Aug 4, 2021 as application 17/393,534 · Granted Jul 30, 2024
Base term plus 148 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2038
Clock starts
Oct 3, 2017
Term ends
Feb 28, 2038
Granted
Jul 30, 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
148
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.
8
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 148 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 15/723,874, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 4, 2021)Oct 3, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+148 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 28, 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 28, 2038High confidence

This family

US 11,485,088In force
Nov 2039
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Application PCT/US2018/054241PCT application
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no patent term
US 11,192,309In force
Oct 2037
Oct 2037
US 11,969,948In force
May 2038
May 2038
US 12,257,782In force
Sep 2039
Sep 2039
US 12,049,044this patent
Feb 2038
Feb 2038
US 12,042,995In force
May 2038
May 2038
Application 19/054,007Pending
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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
Oct 16, 2023
Reel 65225, frame 259
Gjovik, Erik; Macneish, William J.Jabil 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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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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