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MEMS Package and a Method for Manufacturing the Same

US 8,987,030 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Mar 24, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Aug 13, 2010 as application 12/856,101 · Granted Mar 24, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 77 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
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Lapsed Mar 24, 2019
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Clock starts
Aug 13, 2010
No longer in force
Mar 24, 2019
Granted
Mar 24, 2015
Term would have run to
Oct 29, 2030
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
77
Days of term adjustment
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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.
29
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 Oct 29, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 77 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 13, 2010, when this application, 12/856,101, was filedAug 13, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+77 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 29, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 24, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 24, 2019High confidence

This family

US 8,987,030this patent
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Application 13/658,337Abandoned
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US 9,712,923In force
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Application PCT/US2014/053235PCT application
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US 9,502,028In force
Oct 2034
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US 10,028,054Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,113,263In force
May 2034
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US 9,076,447In force
Oct 2034
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8 of 29 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
Oct 15, 2010
Reel 25145, frame 850
Loeppert, Peter V.; Czech, Denise P.; Grunert, Lawrence A.; Friel, Kurt B.; Wang, QingKnowles Electronics, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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