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Methods and Apparatuses for Manipulating Temperature

US 12,390,361 In force
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Term ends Nov 15, 2034 · High confidence

Filed Aug 11, 2023 as application 18/448,292 · Granted Aug 19, 2025
Base term plus 36 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2034
Clock starts
Oct 10, 2014
Term ends
Nov 15, 2034
Granted
Aug 19, 2025
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
36
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
5
Family applications on record here
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This patent's term runs 36 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 10, 2014, when application PCT/US2014/060100, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 11, 2023)Oct 10, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+36 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 15, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 15, 2034High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2014/060100PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,182,937In force
Oct 2036
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US 11,701,250In force
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
US 11,759,350In force
Feb 2035
Feb 2035
US 12,390,361this patent
Nov 2034
Nov 2034
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 29, 2023
Reel 65075, frame 756
Smith, Matthew J.; Shames, Samuel; Gibson, Michael; Cohen-tanugi, DavidEmbr Labs Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 29, 2023
Reel 65076, frame 380
Embr Labs IP LLCAnkura Trust Company, LLCSecurity Interest
Sep 29, 2023
Reel 65085, frame 557
Embr Labs Inc.Embr Labs IP LLCConfirmatory Assignment

Sources

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