Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 10, 2021 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ends May 18, 2032 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends May 18, 2032
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 10,604,791), so the cap could be lower.
Held by Agena Bioscience, Inc.
Filed Feb 18, 2020 as application 16/793,732 · Granted Jun 6, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
May 18, 2012
May 18, 2012
Term ends
May 18, 2032
May 18, 2032
Granted
Jun 6, 2023
Jun 6, 2023
base term
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,604,791, to May 18, 2032. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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.
5
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. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts May 18, 2012, when application PCT/US2012/038710, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 18, 2020) | May 18, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,604,791) | resolves to May 18, 2032, no earlier than this term, so no change | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 18, 2032 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2012/038710 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,604,791 | In force no later than May 2032 | no later than May 2032 |
| Application 13/790,996 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,667,958 | this patent May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 12,630,865 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2020 Reel 51864, frame 357 | Honisch, Christiane; Van Den Boom, Dirk Johannes; Nygren, Anders; Mosko, Michael | Sequenom, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 19, 2020 Reel 51864, frame 489 | Sequenom, Inc. | Biosciences Acquisition Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 19, 2020 Reel 51973, frame 890 | Biosciences Acquisition Company | Agena Bioscience, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 10, 2021 Reel 58358, frame 661 | Agena Bioscience, Inc. | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
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What's changing
May 2032
Term ends May 18, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,604,791, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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