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Dep Force Control and Electrowetting Control in Different Sections of the Same Microfluidic Apparatus

US 11,192,107 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Dec 7, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Oct 24, 2016 as application 15/306,355 · Granted Dec 7, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 224 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 7, 2025
2014 2034
Clock starts
Apr 25, 2014
No longer in force
Dec 7, 2025
Granted
Dec 7, 2021
Term would have run to
Dec 5, 2034
base term patent term adjustment 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
224
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
6
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 Dec 5, 2034: its 20-year base term plus 224 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 25, 2014, when application 14/262,140, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 24, 2016)Apr 25, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+224 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 5, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Dec 7, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 7, 2025High confidence

This family

Application 14/262,200Abandoned
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Application 14/262,140Abandoned
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Application PCT/US2015/027680PCT application
no patent term
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Application PCT/US2015/027679PCT application
no patent term
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US 11,192,107this patent
Dec 2025
Dec 2025
US 10,245,588In 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
Dec 9, 2019
Reel 51221, frame 33
Khandros, Igor Y.; Nevill, J. Tanner; Short, Steven W.; Wu, Ming C.Berkeley Lights, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 20, 2023
Reel 64961, frame 794
Berkeley Lights, Inc.Phenomex Inc.Change of Name
Nov 30, 2023
Reel 65726, frame 624
Phenomex Inc.; Bird Mergersub CorporationBruker Cellular Analysis, Inc.Merger and Change of Name

Sources

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

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