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US 11,457,899 In force
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Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 29, 2025 (Orc SPV LLC).

Term ends Dec 31, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Mar 30, 2017 as application 15/515,980 · Granted Oct 4, 2022
Base term plus 823 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2015 2037
Clock starts
Sep 30, 2015
Term ends
Dec 31, 2037
Granted
Oct 4, 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
823
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
2
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 823 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Sep 30, 2015, when application PCT/US2015/053296, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 30, 2017)Sep 30, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+823 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 31, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 31, 2037High confidence

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Application PCT/US2015/053296PCT application
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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
May 23, 2019
Reel 49270, frame 92
Skog, Johan; Tisel, Bill; Baker, JosephExosome Diagnostics, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 29, 2025
Reel 72403, frame 19
Exosome Diagnostics, Inc.Orc SPV LLCSecurity Interest

Sources

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

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