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Processes and Host Cells for Genome, Pathway, and Biomolecular Engineering

US 11,421,223 In force
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Term ends Aug 27, 2034 · High confidence

Filed Jun 11, 2019 as application 16/437,018 · Granted Aug 23, 2022
Base term plus 553 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2034
Clock starts
Aug 4, 2014
Term ends
Aug 27, 2034
Granted
Aug 23, 2022
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
553
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 10,370,654, US 9,944,925.
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.
4
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 553 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 4, 2014, when application PCT/US2014/049649, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 11, 2019)Aug 4, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+553 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 8, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,370,654, US 9,944,925)capped to Aug 27, 2034High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 27, 2034High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2014/049649PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,944,925In force
Dec 2034
Dec 2034
US 10,370,654In force
Aug 2034
Aug 2034
US 11,421,223this patent
Aug 2034
Aug 2034
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 16, 2019
Reel 49761, frame 36
Konieczka, Jay H.; Spoonamore, James E.; Wapinski, Ilan N.; Isaacs, Farren J.; Foley, Gregory B.Enevolv, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 1, 2020
Reel 53116, frame 712
Enevolv, Inc.Perceptive Credit Holdings II, LPPatent Security Agreement
Jul 1, 2022
Reel 60422, frame 201
Perceptive Credit Holdings II, LP, as Administrative AgentEnevolv, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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