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US 11,047,556 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jun 29, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Oct 10, 2019 as application 16/598,651 · Granted Jun 29, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jun 29, 2025
2016 2036
Clock starts
Jul 15, 2016
No longer in force
Jun 29, 2025
Granted
Jun 29, 2021
Term would have run to
Jul 15, 2036
base term after the term ends 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,047,938, US 10,215,383, to Jul 15, 2036. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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.
7
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Jul 15, 2036: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Jul 15, 2016, when application 15/211,904, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 10, 2019)Jul 15, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,047,938, US 10,215,383)resolves to Jul 15, 2036, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 29, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 29, 2025High confidence

This family

US 9,568,171In force
Jul 2036
Jul 2036
US 10,047,938Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2026
Aug 2026
US 10,215,383In force
Jul 2036
Jul 2036
US 10,782,007In force
Jul 2036
Jul 2036
Application PCT/US2019/033935PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,047,556this patent
Jun 2025
Jun 2025
US 11,578,859In force
no later than Jul 2036
no later than Jul 2036
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
Oct 10, 2019
Reel 50682, frame 394
Grider, Christopher; Smith, DerekTTP Holdings, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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