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High repetitous pulse generation and energy recovery system

US 7,919,887 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Apr 5, 2015 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant MERSTech, Inc. · find this owner
Filed Feb 18, 2009 as application 12/388,491 · Granted Apr 5, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 164 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 5, 2015
2006 2026
Clock starts
Feb 17, 2006
No longer in force
Apr 5, 2015
Granted
Apr 5, 2011
Term would have run to
Jul 31, 2026
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
164
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.

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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.
Step Input Date after this step Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 17, 2006, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Feb 18, 2009); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Feb 17, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+164 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 31, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Apr 5, 2015High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 5, 2015From the USPTO record

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