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US 9,098,492 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 4, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 17, 2013 as application 13/896,611 · Granted Aug 4, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 4, 2023
2006 2026
Clock starts
Jul 21, 2006
No longer in force
Aug 4, 2023
Granted
Aug 4, 2015
Term would have run to
Jul 21, 2026
base term after the term ends fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
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 Jul 21, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no 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 Jul 21, 2006, when application 11/459,202, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 17, 2013)Jul 21, 2026High 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 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 4, 2023High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 4, 2023High confidence

This family

US 8,666,928In force
Nov 2029
Nov 2029
Application 13/896,078Abandoned
not computed
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Application 13/896,878Abandoned
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US 9,098,492this patent
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
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
May 14, 2014
Reel 32886, frame 325
Evi Technologies LimitedAmazon Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 12, 2016
Reel 39321, frame 393
Evi Technologies LimitedAmazon Technologies, Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Inadvertently Omitted the Signature of Assignee Inside the Assignment Document Previously Recorded at Reel: 032886 Frame: 0325. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

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