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Wafer Level Hermetic Bond Using Metal Alloy with Keeper Layer

US 8,288,211 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 16, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Oct 13, 2010 as application 12/923,872 · Granted Oct 16, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 16, 2020
2005 2026
Clock starts
Aug 26, 2005
No longer in force
Oct 16, 2020
Granted
Oct 16, 2012
Term would have run to
Aug 26, 2025
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
6
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Aug 26, 2025: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 26, 2005, when application 11/211,622, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 13, 2010)Aug 26, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 16, 2020High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 16, 2020High confidence

This family

Application 11/211,622Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,569,926Term ended
Nov 2026
Nov 2026
Application 12/222,845Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,960,208Term ended
no later than Aug 2025
no later than Aug 2025
US 8,288,211this patent
Oct 2020
Oct 2020
US 8,736,081Term ended
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
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 13, 2010
Reel 25179, frame 174
Foster, Ian S.; Paranjpye Alok; Thompson, Douglas L.Innovative Micro TechnologyAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 30, 2017
Reel 44553, frame 257
Innovative Micro Technology, Inc.Pacific Western BankSecurity Interest
Nov 30, 2017
Reel 44635, frame 492
Innovative Micro Technology, Inc.Agility Capital II, LLCSecurity Interest
Oct 15, 2018
Reel 47237, frame 141
Agility Capital II, LLCInnovative Micro Technology, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jan 30, 2019
Reel 48195, frame 441
Pacific Western BankInnovative Micro Technology, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

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