Lapsed May 31, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 15, 2036
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Université Paris Cité
Filed Oct 31, 2019 as application 16/669,626 · Granted May 31, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 111 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed May 31, 2026
2016
2036
Clock starts
Jul 15, 2016
Jul 15, 2016
No longer in force
May 31, 2026
May 31, 2026
Granted
May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022
Term would have run to
Jul 15, 2036
Jul 15, 2036
base term
after the term ends
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
111
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 10,493,046.
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.
11
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 15, 2036: its 20-year base term plus 111 days of term adjustment for 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 Jul 15, 2016, when application PCT/EP2016/066948, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 31, 2019) | Jul 15, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +111 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 3, 2036 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,493,046) | capped to Jul 15, 2036 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 31, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 31, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 14/606,741 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,751,385 | In force Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
| US 11,236,390 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 10,493,046 | In force Jul 2036 | Jul 2036 |
| US 11,344,515 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 11,679,140 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| Application 17/552,130 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/313,124 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2022 Reel 59988, frame 388 | Universite de Paris | Université Paris Cité | Change of Name |
| May 12, 2022 Reel 60044, frame 856 | Universite Paris Descartes | Universite de Paris | Merger |
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Note
The 111 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 10,493,046.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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