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Power savings mode for ocean bottom seismic data acquisition systems

US 9,507,043 Surrendered on reissue
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Surrendered on reissue Jun 15, 2021 · From the USPTO record

Surrendered on reissue Jun 15, 2021 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE48,594.

Named at grant Ion Geophysical Corporation · find this owner
Filed Jul 20, 2015 as application 14/803,306 · Granted Nov 29, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Surrendered Jun 15, 2021
2014 2034
Clock starts
Mar 11, 2014
No longer in force
Jun 15, 2021
Granted
Nov 29, 2016
Term would have run to
Mar 11, 2034
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.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Fees paid on this patent before its reissue. Those after fall due on the reissue, which carries the term on.

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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 filingClock starts Mar 11, 2014, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jul 20, 2015)Mar 11, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNo term adjustment record on a grant after 2005, so none is addedno changeMedium confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holdsno changeMedium confidence
ReissueUS RE48,594 issued Jun 15, 2021, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252)surrendered Jun 15, 2021High confidence
Surrendered on reissueThe steps above, in orderJun 15, 2021From the USPTO record

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