Virtual Electrode Mineral Particle Disintegrator

US 9,700,893 Lapsed on the fee record

Lapsed Jul 11, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 7,959,094), so the cap could be lower.

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by SDG, LLC

Filed Jul 29, 2014 as application 14/445,918 · Granted Jul 11, 2017

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 297 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

Lapsed Jul 11, 2025

2005 2026

Clock starts
Aug 19, 2005

No longer in force
Jul 11, 2025

Granted
Jul 11, 2017

Term would have run to
Dec 3, 2025

base term patent term adjustment 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

297

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 7,959,094.

1 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 Aug 19, 2005, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jul 29, 2014)	Aug 19, 2025	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+297 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jun 12, 2026	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,959,094)	capped to Dec 3, 2025	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 2 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Jul 11, 2025	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jul 11, 2025	Medium confidence

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

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Virtual Electrode Mineral Particle Disintegrator

Lapsed Jul 11, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence

20-year base term ended Aug 19, 2025

How we calculated this date

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