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Cable Communication Systems and Methods Employing Tdma/Atdma Qam Upstream Channels Below 20 MHZ for Increased Upstream Capacity to Support Voice And/Or Data Services

US 9,019,855 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Jun 30, 2032 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 8,532,488), so the cap could be lower.

Filed Nov 30, 2012 as application 13/690,739 · Granted Apr 28, 2015
Base term plus 45 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2012 2032
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2012
Term ends
Jun 30, 2032
Granted
Apr 28, 2015
base term 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
45
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,532,488, US 8,543,003, US 8,650,606.
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.
12
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 45 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 30, 2012, when application 13/539,383, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 30, 2012)Jun 30, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+45 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 14, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,532,488, US 8,543,003, US 8,650,606)capped to Jun 30, 2032Medium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 30, 2032Medium confidence

This family

US 8,948,596In force
Nov 2032
Nov 2032
US 8,543,003Lapsed on the fee record
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
US 8,578,437Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2021
Nov 2021
US 8,811,191Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2026
Aug 2026
US 8,650,606Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2026
Feb 2026
US 8,532,488Lapsed on the fee record
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
US 9,019,855this patent
Jun 2032
Jun 2032
US 9,088,310In force
Jun 2032
Jun 2032
8 of 12 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 20, 2012
Reel 29507, frame 626
Nielsen, Steven; Totten, Ronald; Halky, TravisCertusview Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

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