Surrendered on reissue May 28, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 24, 2035
Surrendered on reissue May 28, 2024 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE49,985.
Held by Verdant Technologies, LLC
Filed Jul 12, 2016 as application 15/208,040 · Granted Aug 13, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 304 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Surrendered May 28, 2024
2015
2035
Clock starts
Jun 24, 2015
Jun 24, 2015
No longer in force
May 28, 2024
May 28, 2024
Granted
Aug 13, 2019
Aug 13, 2019
Term would have run to
Jun 24, 2035
Jun 24, 2035
base term
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
304
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,421,793.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Fees paid on this patent before its reissue. Those after fall due on the reissue, which carries the term on.
5
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 304 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jun 24, 2015, when application 14/748,456, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 12, 2016) | Jun 24, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +304 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 23, 2036 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,421,793) | capped to Jun 24, 2035 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | no change | High confidence |
| Reissue | US RE49,985 issued May 28, 2024, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252) | surrendered May 28, 2024 | High confidence |
| Surrendered on reissue | The steps above, in order | May 28, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,421,793 | In force Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
| US 10,376,472 | this patent May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US RE49,985 | In force Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| Application 18/634,437 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/794,403 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2016 Reel 39135, frame 61 | Wood, Willard E.; Keute, Joseph S. | Cellresin Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 4, 2020 Reel 54591, frame 969 | Cellresin Technologies, LLC | Verdant Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
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Note
The 304 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,421,793.
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
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