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Term ends Nov 23, 2027 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Mar 3, 2016 as application 15/060,193 · Granted Aug 18, 2020
Base term plus 372 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2006 2027
Clock starts
Nov 16, 2006
Term ends
Nov 23, 2027
Granted
Aug 18, 2020
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
372
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 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
60
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 372 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 1 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Nov 16, 2006, when application 11/560,476, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 3, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Nov 16, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+372 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 23, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 1 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 23, 2027Medium confidence

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8 of 60 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
Mar 3, 2016
Reel 37887, frame 273
Potyrailo, Radislav Alexandrovich; Sexton, Daniel White; Go, Steven Y.General Electric CompanyAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 17, 2023
Reel 65727, frame 1
General Electric CompanyGE Infrastructure Technology LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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