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Solid Freeform Fabrication Using a Plurality of Modeling Materials

US 12,103,236 In force
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Term ends Dec 28, 2028 · High confidence

Filed Nov 1, 2021 as application 17/515,651 · Granted Oct 1, 2024
Base term plus 157 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2028
Clock starts
Jul 24, 2008
Term ends
Dec 28, 2028
Granted
Oct 1, 2024
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
157
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 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
7
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 157 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 1 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 Jul 24, 2008, when application PCT/IL2008/001025, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 1, 2021)Jul 24, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+157 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 28, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 1 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 28, 2028High confidence

This family

Application 12/692,695Abandoned
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US 9,031,680In force
Jul 2028
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US 9,919,474In force
Jul 2028
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US 11,161,308In force
May 2030
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US 12,103,236this patent
Dec 2028
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Application 18/829,308Pending
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6 of 7 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
Oct 17, 2022
Reel 61439, frame 420
Napadensky, EduardoStratasys Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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