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Switchable Gas and Liquid Release and Delivery Devices, Systems, and Methods

US 9,907,876 In force
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Term ends Oct 21, 2034 · High confidence

Filed Oct 22, 2015 as application 14/786,505 · Granted Mar 6, 2018
Base term plus 182 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2034
Clock starts
Apr 22, 2014
Term ends
Oct 21, 2034
Granted
Mar 6, 2018
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
182
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.
6
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 182 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 Apr 22, 2014, when application PCT/US2014/035054, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 22, 2015)Apr 22, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+182 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 21, 2034High 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 orderOct 21, 2034High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2014/035054PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,907,876this patent
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
US 10,556,035In force
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
US 11,464,883In force
Jul 2034
Jul 2034
Application 17/930,052Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 12,758,670In force
Apr 2034
Apr 2034
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
Jun 15, 2017
Reel 42728, frame 295
Matthew, StewartSensable Technologies LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 15, 2017
Reel 42728, frame 302
Sensable Technologies LLCSensable Technologies LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 15, 2017
Reel 42728, frame 307
Jin, Sungho; Gardner, CalvinThe Regents of the University of CaliforniaAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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