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Beverage Temperature Optimizer Machine

US 9,723,946 In force
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Term ends Jan 14, 2035 · High confidence

Filed Dec 2, 2013 as application 14/123,504 · Granted Aug 8, 2017
Base term plus 462 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2013 2035
Clock starts
Oct 9, 2013
Term ends
Jan 14, 2035
Granted
Aug 8, 2017
base term patent term adjustment 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
462
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
5
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 462 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Oct 9, 2013, when application PCT/IB2013/059223, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 2, 2013)Oct 9, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+462 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 14, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 14, 2035High confidence

This family

US 9,723,946this patent
Jan 2035
Jan 2035
US 10,820,737In force
no later than Dec 2034
no later than Dec 2034
US 11,406,218In force
Sep 2034
Sep 2034
3 of 5 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 24, 2014
Reel 33388, frame 538
Chen, Andrew Yuen Chin; Cheng, Amy Decem; Wong, Raymond Wai Ming; Tay, Jeremy Kok LeongElectrical and Electronics, Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 26, 2016
Reel 38733, frame 243
Electrical & Electronics Ltd.Ene Holdings Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 12, 2016
Reel 39321, frame 407
CDRD Ventures Inc.Zymeworks Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Previously Recorded on Reel 039068 Frame 0022. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Asignment.
Jun 26, 2017
Reel 43017, frame 428
Ene Holdings Ltd.Ene Holdings Ltd.Corrected by Declaration of Erroneously Assigned Filed Assignment - Reel/Frame: 039321/0407

Sources

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