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Patient-Orienting Alternating Pressure Support Apparatus with Lower Extremity Wedge

US 8,757,165 In force
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Term ends Oct 25, 2032 · High confidence

Filed Oct 25, 2013 as application 14/063,861 · Granted Jun 24, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2012 2032
Clock starts
Oct 25, 2012
Term ends
Oct 25, 2032
Granted
Jun 24, 2014
base term 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.
3 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.
15
Family applications on record here
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This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 25, 2012, when application 13/660,429, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 25, 2013)Oct 25, 2032High 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 events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 25, 2032High confidence

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Application 13/660,429Abandoned
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Application PCT/US2013/034845PCT application
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US 8,726,908In force
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US 8,757,165this patent
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US 9,931,238In force
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US 9,901,491In force
no later than May 2035
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US 10,751,229In force
no later than Dec 2033
no later than Dec 2033
US 11,039,962In force
Oct 2032
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8 of 15 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 31, 2013
Reel 31862, frame 598
Squitieri, Rafael P.Turncare, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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