Term ends Nov 21, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 30, 2030
Held by GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
Filed Jun 30, 2010 as application 12/827,623 · Granted Jan 20, 2015
Base term plus 1240 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2033
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2010
Jun 30, 2010
Term ends
Nov 21, 2033
Nov 21, 2033
Granted
Jan 20, 2015
Jan 20, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,240
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
60
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 1240 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jun 30, 2010, when this application, 12/827,623, was filed | Jun 30, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1240 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 21, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 21, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,589,686 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| Application 12/325,653 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,364,419 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| Application 12/824,436 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,936,191 | this patent Nov 2033 | Nov 2033 |
| US 8,542,023 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| Application 12/977,568 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,542,024 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
8 of 60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2010 Reel 24634, frame 904 | General Electric Global Research CTR | National Institutes of Health (Nih), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Government | Confirmatory License |
| Sep 9, 2010 Reel 24960, frame 591 | Potyrailo, Radislav Alexandrovich; Ashe, Jeffrey Michael; Morris, William Guy; Surman, Cheryl Margaret | General Electric Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 17, 2023 Reel 65727, frame 1 | General Electric Company | GE Infrastructure Technology LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Nov 2033
Term ends Nov 21, 2033. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1240 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
29
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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