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Return Path Noise Reducing Amplifier with Bypass Signal

US 9,654,062 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed May 16, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 15, 2014 as application 14/181,636 · Granted May 16, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 63 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 16, 2025
2014 2034
Clock starts
Feb 15, 2014
No longer in force
May 16, 2025
Granted
May 16, 2017
Term would have run to
Apr 19, 2034
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
63
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
52
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 Apr 19, 2034: its 20-year base term plus 63 days of term 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 Feb 15, 2014, when this application, 14/181,636, was filedFeb 15, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+63 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 19, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 16, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 16, 2025High confidence

This family

US 6,450,836Term ended
May 2021
May 2021
US 6,648,683Term ended
May 2022
May 2022
US 6,712,631Term ended
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
US 7,404,737In force
May 2027
May 2027
US 7,837,501In force
Mar 2029
Mar 2029
US 9,039,446In force
Jun 2033
Jun 2033
Application PCT/US2013/045233PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,654,062this patent
May 2025
May 2025
8 of 52 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
Feb 15, 2014
Reel 32224, frame 614
Lin, Kang; Wang, Jon-enPCT International, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 3, 2018
Reel 45427, frame 717
PCT International, Inc.Bibby Financial Services (CA), Inc.Security Interest
Feb 16, 2022
Reel 59126, frame 491
PCT International, Inc.Sallyport Commercial Finance, LLCSecurity Interest
Oct 22, 2025
Reel 73172, frame 788
PCT International, Inc.DMZ Global LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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