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Devices and Methods for Analyzing Biological Samples

US 11,554,370 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Jan 7, 2042 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Apr 7, 2022 as application 17/715,843 · Granted Jan 17, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2022 2042
Clock starts
Jan 7, 2022
Term ends
Jan 7, 2042
Granted
Jan 17, 2023
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
18
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 7, 2022, when application PCT/US2022/011720, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 7, 2022); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jan 7, 2042High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh 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 orderJan 7, 2042Medium confidence

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Application PCT/US2022/011720PCT application
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Application 17/669,315Abandoned
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US 11,554,370this patent
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Application 17/896,742Abandoned
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US 12,030,047In force
no later than Jan 2042
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US 12,151,242In force
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US 12,303,892In force
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US 12,440,837In force
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8 of 18 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Nov 29, 2022
Reel 61912, frame 963
Khurana, Tarun Kumar; Agah, Ali; Wu, Yir-shyuan; Yasar, Filiz GorpeCellanome, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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