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Devices For Reducing Or Eliminating Defects In Polymer Workpieces

US 8,342,492 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 1, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Aug 24, 2007 as application 11/844,772 · Granted Jan 1, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 780 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 1, 2025
2007 2029
Clock starts
Aug 24, 2007
No longer in force
Jan 1, 2025
Granted
Jan 1, 2013
Term would have run to
Oct 12, 2029
base term patent term adjustment 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
780
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
3
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Oct 12, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 780 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 24, 2007, when this application, 11/844,772, was filedAug 24, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+780 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 12, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 1, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 1, 2025High confidence

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US 7,785,517In force
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US 8,342,492this patent
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Application PCT/US2008/074223PCT application
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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 9, 2007
Reel 19932, frame 799
Poe, Garrett D.; Patrick, Brian G.Mantech SRS Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 9, 2009
Reel 22367, frame 176
Mantech SRS Technologies, Inc.Nexolve CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 5, 2019
Reel 49372, frame 972
Nexolve CorporationNexolve Holding Company, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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