Term ends Jul 12, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 19, 2034
Held by Cargill, Incorporated
Filed Sep 4, 2019 as application 16/560,241 · Granted Oct 3, 2023
Base term plus 488 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Dec 19, 2014
Dec 19, 2014
Term ends
Jul 12, 2035
Jul 12, 2035
Granted
Oct 3, 2023
Oct 3, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
488
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 10,435,726, US 11,767,544.
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.
11
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 488 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 Dec 19, 2014, when application 14/578,075, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 4, 2019) | Dec 19, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +488 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 20, 2036 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,435,726, US 11,767,544) | capped to Jul 12, 2035 | 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 | Jul 12, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,248,245 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 10,435,726 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2015/066953 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2016/049782 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,767,544 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
| US 11,773,418 | this patent Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 12,674,184 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| US 12,203,122 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 2019 Reel 50265, frame 40 | Addy, Jeff; Brown, James H | International Flora Technologies, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 7, 2023 Reel 64510, frame 680 | International Flora Technologies Ltd. | Cargill, Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2035
Term ends Jul 12, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 488 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 10,435,726, US 11,767,544.
Citations
3
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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