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Systems and Methods for Predicting Failure of Electronic Systems and Assessing Level of Degradation and Remaining Useful Life

US 8,103,463 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 24, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Sep 21, 2007 as application 11/859,256 · Granted Jan 24, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 718 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 24, 2024
2007 2029
Clock starts
Sep 21, 2007
No longer in force
Jan 24, 2024
Granted
Jan 24, 2012
Term would have run to
Sep 8, 2029
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events 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
718
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
3
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Its term would have run to Sep 8, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 718 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 21, 2007, when this application, 11/859,256, was filedSep 21, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+718 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 8, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 24, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 24, 2024High confidence

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Application PCT/US2007/079193PCT application
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US 8,600,685In force
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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
Jan 13, 2010
Reel 23775, frame 21
Kalgren, Patrick W.; Ginart, Antonio E.; Nanduri, Sashank; Boodhansingh, Anthony J.; Orsagh, Rolf F.; Brown, Douglas W.; Sipos, Brian J.; Minnella, Christopher M.; Baybutt, MarkImpact Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 14, 2010
Reel 23781, frame 489
Byington, Carl S.Impact Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 7, 2013
Reel 31421, frame 916
Impact Technologies, LLCSikorsky Aircraft CorporationMerger
Oct 8, 2013
Reel 31359, frame 829
Impact Technologies, LLCSikorsky Aircraft CorporationMerger

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