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Method for Fabrication of a Semiconductor Device and Structure

US 7,986,042 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 26, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

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Filed Aug 3, 2010 as application 12/849,272 · Granted Jul 26, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
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Term would have run to
Aug 3, 2030
base term after the term ends 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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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.
246
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Its term would have run to Aug 3, 2030: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 3, 2010, when this application, 12/849,272, was filedAug 3, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 26, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 26, 2019High confidence

This family

US 8,384,426Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2021
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Application 12/577,532Abandoned
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Application 12/706,520Abandoned
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US 7,964,916Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2019
Jun 2019
US 8,115,511Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2020
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US 7,960,242In force (reinstated)
Apr 2029
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US 7,986,042this patent
Jul 2019
Jul 2019
US 8,405,420In force
Apr 2029
Apr 2029
8 of 246 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
Aug 3, 2010
Reel 24780, frame 963
Cronquist, Brian; Beinglass, Israel; De Jong, J. L.; Sekar, Deepak C.Nupga CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 16, 2011
Reel 25968, frame 910
Nupga CorporationMonolithic 3D Inc.Change of Name
Feb 1, 2013
Reel 29741, frame 461
Or-bach, ZviMonolithic 3D Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

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