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Manufacturing System, Process, Article, and Furnace

US 11,351,697 In force
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Term ends Nov 29, 2036 · High confidence

Filed Oct 2, 2019 as application 16/591,058 · Granted Jun 7, 2022
Base term plus 268 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2016 2036
Clock starts
Jun 28, 2016
Term ends
Nov 29, 2036
Granted
Jun 7, 2022
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
268
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,486,332.
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.
20
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 268 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jun 28, 2016, when application PCT/US2016/039708, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 2, 2019)Jun 28, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+268 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 23, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,486,332)capped to Nov 29, 2036High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 29, 2036High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2016/039708PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,766,165In force
Apr 2038
Apr 2038
Application 15/790,737Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 10,486,332In force
Nov 2036
Nov 2036
US 11,351,697this patent
Nov 2036
Nov 2036
US 10,875,212In force
Jun 2036
Jun 2036
US 10,967,539In force
Jun 2036
Jun 2036
US 11,148,321In force
Jun 2036
Jun 2036
8 of 20 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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