Term ends Apr 29, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 29, 2033
Filed Sep 14, 2020 as application 17/020,533 · Granted Aug 15, 2023
Base term plus 182 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Apr 29, 2013
Apr 29, 2013
Term ends
Apr 29, 2033
Apr 29, 2033
Granted
Aug 15, 2023
Aug 15, 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
182
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 10,105,409, US 10,772,924.
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.
10
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 182 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Apr 29, 2013, when application PCT/US2013/038696, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 14, 2020) | Apr 29, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +182 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 28, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,105,409, US 10,772,924) | capped to Apr 29, 2033 | High 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 | Apr 29, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2013/038696 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,105,409 | In force Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2015/066585 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,130,671 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 10,772,924 | In force Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
| US 10,894,073 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 11,723,943 | this patent Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
| US 11,547,736 | In force Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2021 Reel 56251, frame 478 | Arvik, Torey James; Lipson, Rebecca Susan | Sonomaceuticals, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 14, 2021 Reel 56323, frame 629 | Yokoyama, Wallace | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2033
Term ends Apr 29, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 182 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 10,105,409, US 10,772,924.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.