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Protein Folding and Methods of Using Same

US 10,457,716 In force
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Term ends Dec 10, 2036 · High confidence

Filed Aug 6, 2015 as application 14/820,290 · Granted Oct 29, 2019
Base term plus 492 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2015 2036
Clock starts
Aug 6, 2015
Term ends
Dec 10, 2036
Granted
Oct 29, 2019
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
492
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.
9
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 492 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Aug 6, 2015, when this application, 14/820,290, was filedAug 6, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+492 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 10, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 10, 2036High confidence

This family

US 8,778,360Term ended
Oct 2026
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US 9,308,252In force
Aug 2029
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US 9,220,770In force
Feb 2027
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US 8,778,362In force
Mar 2028
Mar 2028
US 10,174,382In force
Mar 2036
Mar 2036
US 10,457,716this patent
Dec 2036
Dec 2036
Application PCT/US2015/047052PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 15/506,713Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 9 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
Apr 3, 2017
Reel 41823, frame 338
University of Notre DameNational Institutes of Health (Nih), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS), U.S. GovernmentConfirmatory License
Jul 31, 2018
Reel 46507, frame 418
Baker, Brian M.; Hellman, LanceUniversity of Notre Dame du LacAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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