Term ends Aug 18, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 5, 2038
Held by Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Filed Mar 29, 2021 as application 17/215,606 · Granted May 14, 2024
Base term plus 453 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Mar 5, 2018
Mar 5, 2018
Term ends
Aug 18, 2038
Aug 18, 2038
Granted
May 14, 2024
May 14, 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
453
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 10,961,997.
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.
4
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 453 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 5, 2018, when application 15/911,865, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 29, 2021) | Mar 5, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +453 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 1, 2039 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,961,997) | capped to Aug 18, 2038 | 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 | Aug 18, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,961,997 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 11,982,268 | this patent Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 12,584,474 | In force no later than Mar 2038 | no later than Mar 2038 |
| Application 19/551,533 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 2021 Reel 58548, frame 729 | Many, Christopher; Larson, Brad; Smith, Byron; Struhammer, Brian | Biotek Instruments, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 20, 2021 Reel 58548, frame 733 | Biotek Instruments, Inc. | Biotek Instruments LLC | Change of Name |
| Dec 20, 2021 Reel 58548, frame 742 | Biotek Instruments LLC | Agilent Technologies, Inc. | Company to Company Assignment |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2038
Term ends Aug 18, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 453 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 10,961,997.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
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