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Apparatus and Methods for Transmitting Wireless Signals

US 9,628,116 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Apr 18, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

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Filed Jul 14, 2015 as application 14/799,272 · Granted Apr 18, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Apr 18, 2025
2015 2035
Clock starts
Jul 14, 2015
No longer in force
Apr 18, 2025
Granted
Apr 18, 2017
Term would have run to
Jul 14, 2035
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.
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Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Jul 14, 2035: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 14, 2015, when this application, 14/799,272, was filedJul 14, 2035High 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 Apr 18, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 18, 2025High confidence

This family

US 9,628,116this patent
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US 9,722,318Lapsed on the fee record
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US 10,033,107Lapsed on the fee record
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Application PCT/US2016/041561PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,170,840In force
Oct 2035
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US 10,320,586In force
Apr 2036
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US 10,341,142In force
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8 of 31 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 17, 2015
Reel 36121, frame 301
Barnickel, Donald J; Barzegar, Farhad; Bennett, Robert; Gerszberg, Irwin; Henry, Paul Shala; Willis, Thomas M, IIIAT&T Intellectual Property I, LPAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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