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RNA-Guided Nucleases and Active Fragments and Variants Thereof and Methods of Use

US 11,859,181 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends May 17, 2041 · Medium confidence

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

Filed Aug 31, 2022 as application 17/823,897 · Granted Jan 2, 2024
Base term plus 24 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2021 2041
Clock starts
Apr 23, 2021
Term ends
May 17, 2041
Granted
Jan 2, 2024
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
24
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.
8
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 24 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 23, 2021, when application PCT/US2021/028843, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 31, 2022); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Apr 23, 2041High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+24 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 17, 2041High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 17, 2041Medium confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2021/028843PCT application
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US 12,624,369In force
May 2043
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US 11,859,181this patent
May 2041
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US 11,981,916In force
Apr 2041
Apr 2041
Application 18/447,947Pending
not computed
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US 12,252,706In force
Apr 2041
Apr 2041
Application 19/052,482Pending
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Application 19/673,592Pending
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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
Aug 4, 2023
Reel 64492, frame 569
Bowen, Tyson D.; Coyle, Michael; Crawley, Alexandra Briner; Elich, Tedd D.Lifeedit Therapeutics, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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