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US 12,178,913 In force
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Term ends Jan 16, 2038 · High confidence

Filed Apr 18, 2023 as application 18/136,012 · Granted Dec 31, 2024
Base term plus 55 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2038
Clock starts
Nov 22, 2017
Term ends
Jan 16, 2038
Granted
Dec 31, 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
55
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,654,112, to Jan 16, 2038. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
5
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 55 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 22, 2017, when application PCT/US2017/063150, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 18, 2023)Nov 22, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+55 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 16, 2038High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,654,112)resolves to Jan 16, 2038, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 16, 2038High confidence

This family

US 11,654,112In force
Sep 2040
Sep 2040
US 12,178,913this patent
Jan 2038
Jan 2038
US 12,569,445In force
Nov 2037
Nov 2037
Application 19/535,043Pending
not computed
not computed
4 of 5 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 19, 2023
Reel 65281, frame 427
Coffman, Chase; Charles, Lyndon Fitzgerald, JR.; Brown, Paul; Dadon, Daniel Benjamin; Liu, Lisa; Robinson, CoryElektrofi, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 2, 2026
Reel 73662, frame 717
Elektrofi, Inc.Halozyme Hypercon, Inc.Change of Name

Sources

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

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