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Male bayonet connector

US 9,388,929 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Also listed on Value Plastics, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends Jan 30, 2032 · High confidence

Filed Dec 22, 2010 as application 12/976,921 · Granted Jul 12, 2016
Base term plus 782 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2009 2032
Clock starts
Dec 9, 2009
Term ends
Jan 30, 2032
Granted
Jul 12, 2016
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
782
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.
8
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 782 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are 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 Dec 9, 2009, when application 29/351,665, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 22, 2010)Dec 9, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+782 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 30, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 30, 2032High confidence

This family

US D649,240Term ended
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US 9,388,929this patent
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US D783,815In force
Apr 2032
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US D785,790In force
May 2032
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US 10,001,236In force
Dec 2029
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US 9,732,891In force
Dec 2029
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US 10,711,930In force
Nov 2031
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Application PCT/US2017/058663PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
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
Jul 24, 2011
Reel 26638, frame 431
Lewis, Peter D.; Narayanan, Ravikumar; Cairns, Richard W.; Phipps, Riley M.Value Plastics, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 11, 2012
Reel 28194, frame 837
Value Plastics, Inc.Nordson CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 9, 2016
Reel 40699, frame 515
Nordson CorporationGeneral Electric CompanyAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 8, 2025
Reel 71225, frame 218
General Electric CompanyGE Precision Healthcare LLCNunc Pro Tunc Assignment

Sources

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

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