Lapsed May 14, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 23, 2024
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Midwest Energy Emissions Corp.
Filed Mar 20, 2012 as application 13/425,288 · Granted May 14, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 14, 2021
2004
2026
Clock starts
Apr 23, 2004
Apr 23, 2004
No longer in force
May 14, 2021
May 14, 2021
Granted
May 14, 2013
May 14, 2013
Term would have run to
Apr 23, 2024
Apr 23, 2024
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,173,566, to Apr 23, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
28
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 Apr 23, 2024: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: High. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Apr 23, 2004, when application PCT/US2004/012828, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 20, 2012) | Apr 23, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,173,566) | resolves to Apr 23, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 14, 2021 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 14, 2021 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,435,286 | Term ended Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 8,173,566 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Application 12/201,595 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,168,147 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 8,652,235 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 8,440,585 | this patent May 2021 | May 2021 |
| US 8,512,655 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 8,821,819 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
8 of 28 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2014 Reel 33643, frame 538 | Holmes, Michael J. | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 29, 2014 Reel 33643, frame 339 | Pavlish, John H. | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 29, 2014 Reel 33643, frame 436 | Olson, Edwin S. | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 9, 2014 Reel 33698, frame 612 | Olson, Edwin S. | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party's Address Previously Recorded on Reel 033643 Frame 0436. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Jun 8, 2017 Reel 42647, frame 351 | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation | Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,173,566, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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