Lapsed May 17, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 14, 2036
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Viridos, Inc.
Filed Oct 15, 2020 as application 17/071,883 · Granted May 17, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 17, 2026
2016
2036
Clock starts
Jul 14, 2016
Jul 14, 2016
No longer in force
May 17, 2026
May 17, 2026
Granted
May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022
Term would have run to
Jul 14, 2036
Jul 14, 2036
base term
after the term ends
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,227,619, US 10,563,232, to Jul 14, 2036. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jul 14, 2036: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jul 14, 2016, when application 15/210,845, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 15, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jul 14, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,227,619, US 10,563,232) | resolves to Jul 14, 2036, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 17, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 17, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,227,619 | In force Jul 2036 | Jul 2036 |
| US 10,563,232 | In force Jul 2036 | Jul 2036 |
| US 11,332,764 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
3 of 4 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2020 Reel 54071, frame 797 | Ajjawi, Imad; Moellering, Eric R.; Soriaga, Leah; Aqui, Moena | Synthetic Genomics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 7, 2022 Reel 59631, frame 684 | Synthetic Genomics, Inc. | Viridos, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,227,619, US 10,563,232, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2022 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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