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Excitation and Use of Guided Surface Wave Modes on Lossy Media

US 9,910,144 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends May 21, 2035 · High confidence

Filed Mar 7, 2013 as application 13/789,525 · Granted Mar 6, 2018
Base term plus 805 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2013 2035
Clock starts
Mar 7, 2013
Term ends
May 21, 2035
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
805
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
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This patent's term runs 805 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 Mar 7, 2013, when this application, 13/789,525, was filedMar 7, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+805 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 21, 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 orderMay 21, 2035High confidence

This family

US 9,910,144this patent
May 2035
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US 9,912,031In force
Feb 2035
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Application PCT/US2014/019477PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 15/894,145Abandoned
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US 10,680,306In force
Mar 2033
Mar 2033
US 11,258,152In force
Apr 2033
Apr 2033
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 5, 2013
Reel 30549, frame 136
Corum, James F.; Corum, Kenneth L.CPG Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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