Term ends Jul 18, 2034 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 18, 2034
Held by Universite de Montpellier
Filed May 4, 2020 as application 16/865,833 · Granted Jul 26, 2022
Base term plus 52 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014
Term ends
Jul 18, 2034
Jul 18, 2034
Granted
Jul 26, 2022
Jul 26, 2022
base term
fee events
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
52
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 10,035,835.
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.
8
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 52 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: Low. 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 18, 2014, when application PCT/EP2014/065554, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 4, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jul 18, 2034 | 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 | +52 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 8, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,035,835) | capped to Jul 18, 2034 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 16020469, 15883925, 14905354, 16020469 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 18, 2034 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 9,914,759 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 10,035,835 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 10,407,480 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 10,787,493 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 11,396,532 | this patent Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 12,227,550 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| Application 19/021,433 | Pending not computed | not computed |
7 of 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 2020 Reel 54634, frame 778 | Tavernier, Jan; Bultinck, Jennyfer; Peelman, Frank; Uze, Gilles | Vib VZW; Universite Gent; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Universite Montpellier 2; Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Montpellier | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 14, 2020 Reel 54733, frame 554 | Universite Montpellier 2; Universite de Montpellier | Universite de Montpellier | Merger and Change of Name |
| Dec 14, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Uze, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer | Vib VZW | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 14, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Uze, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer | Universite Gent | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 14, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Uze, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 14, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Uze, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer | Universite Montpellier 2 | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 14, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Uze, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer | Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Montpellier | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 26, 2021 Reel 55111, frame 370 | Tavernier, Jan; Bultinck, Jennyfer; Peelman, Frank; Uze, Gilles | Vib VZW; Universiteit Gent; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Universite Montpellier 2; Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Montpellier | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 054634 Frame 0778. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Second Assignee Name Is Universiteit Gent.. |
| Jan 26, 2021 reel/frame not recorded | Uze, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer | Vib VZW | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 054634 Frame 0778. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Second Assignee Name Is Universiteit Gent.. |
| Jan 26, 2021 reel/frame not recorded | Uze, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer | Universiteit Gent | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 054634 Frame 0778. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Second Assignee Name Is Universiteit Gent.. |
| Jan 26, 2021 reel/frame not recorded | Uze, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 054634 Frame 0778. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Second Assignee Name Is Universiteit Gent.. |
| Jan 26, 2021 reel/frame not recorded | Uze, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer | Universite Montpellier 2 | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 054634 Frame 0778. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Second Assignee Name Is Universiteit Gent.. |
| Jan 26, 2021 reel/frame not recorded | Uze, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer | Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Montpellier | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 054634 Frame 0778. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Second Assignee Name Is Universiteit Gent.. |
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Jul 2034
Term ends Jul 18, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 52 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 10,035,835.
Citations
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later US patent cites this one
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