Term ends Mar 15, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 15, 2037
Held by Bruker Cellular Analysis, Inc.
Filed Jan 28, 2019 as application 16/259,538 · Granted Aug 31, 2021
Base term plus 73 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Mar 15, 2017
Mar 15, 2017
Term ends
Mar 15, 2037
Mar 15, 2037
Granted
Aug 31, 2021
Aug 31, 2021
base term
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
73
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 10,239,058.
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.
7
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 73 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 15, 2017, when application PCT/US2017/022518, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 28, 2019) | Mar 15, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +73 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 27, 2037 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,239,058) | capped to Mar 15, 2037 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 15, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2016/069468 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2017/022518 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,273,177 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 10,239,058 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2017/069084 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,103,870 | this patent Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 11,639,495 | In force Jul 2039 | Jul 2039 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2019 Reel 50383, frame 677 | Lavieu, Gregory G.; Mocciaro, Annamaria; Guan Radstrom, Xiao; McEwen, Jason M.; Soumillon, Magali; Nevill, J. Tanner; Kurz, Volker L. S.; Dyck, Patricia A.; Ramenani, Ravi K. | Berkeley Lights, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 20, 2023 Reel 64961, frame 794 | Berkeley Lights, Inc. | Phenomex Inc. | Change of Name |
| Nov 30, 2023 Reel 65726, frame 624 | Phenomex Inc.; Bird Mergersub Corporation | Bruker Cellular Analysis, Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
| Apr 9, 2026 Reel 75375, frame 517 | Bruker Cellular Analysis, Inc. | Bruker Spatial Biology, Inc. | Merger |
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What's changing
Mar 2037
Term ends Mar 15, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 73 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 10,239,058.
Citations
13
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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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.