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Unitary Heat Pump Air Conditioner Having a Compressed Vapor Diversion Loop

US 9,879,891 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Aug 4, 2032 · High confidence

Filed Mar 11, 2014 as application 14/203,903 · Granted Jan 30, 2018
Base term plus 172 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2012 2032
Clock starts
Feb 14, 2012
Term ends
Aug 4, 2032
Granted
Jan 30, 2018
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
172
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.
10
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 172 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 Feb 14, 2012, when application 13/396,211, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 11, 2014)Feb 14, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+172 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 4, 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 orderAug 4, 2032High confidence

This family

US 8,899,062In force
Jan 2033
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Application PCT/US2012/025157PCT application
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Application PCT/US2012/025419PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,239,193In force
Dec 2033
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US 9,109,840In force
Sep 2033
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Application 61/777,677Provisional application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 13/995,624Abandoned
not computed
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US 9,879,891this patent
Aug 2032
Aug 2032
8 of 10 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
Mar 11, 2014
Reel 32403, frame 401
Kowsky, Carrie M.; Kadle, Prasad S.; Oddi, Frederick V.; Leitzel, Lindsey L.Delphi Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 29, 2016
Reel 37640, frame 36
Delphi Technologies, Inc.Mahle International GmbHAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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