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Shipping Container with Compostable Insulation

US 9,550,618 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Nov 6, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).

Lapsed Jan 24, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Apr 8, 2016 as application 15/094,787 · Granted Jan 24, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jan 24, 2025
2016 2036
Clock starts
Apr 1, 2016
No longer in force
Jan 24, 2025
Granted
Jan 24, 2017
Term would have run to
Apr 1, 2036
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.

Its term would have run to Apr 1, 2036: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 1, 2016, when application 15/089,344, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 8, 2016)Apr 1, 2036High 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 events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 24, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 24, 2025High confidence

This family

Application 15/089,344Abandoned
not computed
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US 9,550,618this patent
Jan 2025
Jan 2025
US 9,751,683In force
Apr 2036
Apr 2036
US 9,957,098In force
Apr 2036
Apr 2036
Application PCT/US2017/015893PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,647,497In force
Apr 2036
Apr 2036
US 10,625,923In force
Apr 2036
Apr 2036
US 11,453,540In force
Apr 2036
Apr 2036
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
Jul 6, 2016
Reel 39270, frame 224
Jobe, DarrellVericool, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 18, 2021
Reel 57816, frame 343
Vericool, Inc.Fish & Richardson P.C.Lien
Dec 28, 2021
Reel 58493, frame 967
Fish & Richardson PCVericool, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 23, 2022
Reel 59373, frame 594
Vericool, Inc.Vcool (Assignment for Benefit of Creditors) LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 23, 2022
Reel 59483, frame 159
Vcool (Assignment for Benefit of Creditors) LLCVericool World, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 13, 2023
Reel 62389, frame 186
Vericool World, LLCStoropack, Inc.Security Interest
Apr 18, 2023
Reel 63361, frame 948
Vericool World, LLCStoropack, Inc.Security Interest
Mar 18, 2024
Reel 66811, frame 187
Storopack, Inc.Vericool World LLCRelease of Security Interest
Mar 26, 2024
Reel 66898, frame 660
Storopack, Inc.Vericool World LLCRelease of Security Interest
Aug 28, 2025
Reel 72676, frame 364
Vericool World LLCTemperpack Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 6, 2025
Reel 72816, frame 641
Temperpack Technologies Inc.Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Security Interest

Sources

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