Term ends Apr 13, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 25, 2029
Filed Apr 14, 2016 as application 15/098,800 · Granted Sep 8, 2020
Base term plus 286 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Mar 25, 2009
Mar 25, 2009
Term ends
Apr 13, 2029
Apr 13, 2029
Granted
Sep 8, 2020
Sep 8, 2020
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
286
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 9,340,763, US 9,534,196.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
6
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 286 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 25, 2009, when application 12/410,724, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 14, 2016) | Mar 25, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +286 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 5, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,340,763, US 9,534,196) | capped to Apr 13, 2029 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 13, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 12/410,724 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,340,763 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2013/021385 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,534,196 | In force Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
| US 10,767,154 | this patent Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
| US 10,774,299 | In force Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 2017 Reel 41192, frame 824 | Galliher, Parrish M.; Mitchell, Peter A.; Damren, Richard Lee; Crowell, Joseph D.; Tuohey, Colin R.; Erdenberger, Thomas John; Clapp, Kenneth P. | GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 6, 2020 Reel 53425, frame 480 | GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences Corp. | Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC | Entity Conversion |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2029
Term ends Apr 13, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 286 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 9,340,763, US 9,534,196.
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.