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Material Coating System and Method

US 10,543,511 In force
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Term ends Sep 1, 2036 · High confidence

Filed Mar 10, 2017 as application 15/456,431 · Granted Jan 28, 2020
Base term plus 315 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2015 2036
Clock starts
Oct 22, 2015
Term ends
Sep 1, 2036
Granted
Jan 28, 2020
base term patent term adjustment 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
315
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
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 315 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 22, 2015, when application 14/919,956, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 10, 2017)Oct 22, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+315 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 1, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 1, 2036High confidence

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US 11,914,057In force
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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
Dec 10, 2019
Reel 51232, frame 43
Frimpong, George K.; Prieto Colmenero, AlbertoABB Schweiz AGAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 10, 2019
Reel 51241, frame 315
ABB Schweiz AGABB Power Grids Switzerland AGAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 6, 2020
Reel 52916, frame 1
ABB Schweiz AGABB Power Grids Switzerland AGAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 31, 2021
Reel 58666, frame 540
ABB Power Grids Switzerland AGHitachi Energy Switzerland AGChange of Name
May 26, 2022
Reel 60026, frame 741
Pitois, ClaireHitachi Energy Switzerland AGAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 13, 2023
Reel 65549, frame 576
Hitachi Energy Switzerland AGHitachi Energy Ltd.Merger

Sources

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

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