Term ends Jul 2, 2039 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 1, 2039
Held by Tepha, Inc.
Filed Apr 30, 2021 as application 17/245,573 · Granted Dec 19, 2023
Base term plus 123 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2019
2039
Clock starts
Mar 1, 2019
Mar 1, 2019
Term ends
Jul 2, 2039
Jul 2, 2039
Granted
Dec 19, 2023
Dec 19, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
123
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
9
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 123 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 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 Mar 1, 2019, when application 16/290,718, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 30, 2021) | Mar 1, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +123 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 2, 2039 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 2, 2039 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 16/290,718 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,151,050 | In force Mar 2042 | Mar 2042 |
| Application 17/006,705 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 17/006,710 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 10,994,057 | In force Mar 2039 | Mar 2039 |
| US 11,844,879 | this patent Jul 2039 | Jul 2039 |
| Application 17/497,800 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 12,616,780 | In force Mar 2039 | Mar 2039 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2021 Reel 56856, frame 606 | Williams, Simon F.; Rizk, Said; Martin, David P.; Limem, Skander; Guo, Kai; Lopez, German Oswaldo Hohl; Ganatra, Amit | Tepha, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jul 2039
Term ends Jul 2, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 123 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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