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Sofc-Conduction

US 12,512,488 In force
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Term ends Mar 19, 2035 · Medium confidence

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

Filed Aug 29, 2023 as application 18/457,507 · Granted Dec 30, 2025
Base term plus 163 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2035
Clock starts
Oct 7, 2014
Term ends
Mar 19, 2035
Granted
Dec 30, 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
163
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
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

This patent's term runs 163 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 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 Oct 7, 2014, when application PCT/US2014/059447, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 29, 2023); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Oct 7, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+163 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 19, 2035High 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 orderMar 19, 2035Medium confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2014/059447PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,446,858In force
Apr 2037
Apr 2037
US 10,916,784In force
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
US 11,784,331In force
Oct 2035
Oct 2035
US 12,512,488this patent
Mar 2035
Mar 2035
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
Aug 29, 2023
Reel 64740, frame 700
Palumbo, Nathan; Osenar, Paul; Perky, JoshuaProtonex Technology CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 29, 2023
Reel 64740, frame 842
Protonex Technology CorporationUpstart Power, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 31, 2023
Reel 64787, frame 741
Palumbo, Nathan; Osenar, Paul; Persky, JoshuaProtonex Technology CorporationCorrective Assignment to Correct the Typographical Error in the 3RD Inventor's Last Name Previously Recorded on Reel 064740 Frame 0700. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

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