Also listed on Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, an earlier holder on the record.
Term ends Jan 26, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 2, 2033
Filed Jan 23, 2023 as application 18/158,182 · Granted Jan 21, 2025
Base term plus 177 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Aug 2, 2013
Aug 2, 2013
Term ends
Jan 26, 2034
Jan 26, 2034
Granted
Jan 21, 2025
Jan 21, 2025
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
177
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 11,562,253, to Jan 26, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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 177 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 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 Aug 2, 2013, when application PCT/IB2013/001707, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 23, 2023) | Aug 2, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +177 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 26, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,562,253) | resolves to Jan 26, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Jan 26, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 14/419,072 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,562,253 | In force Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
| US 12,205,042 | this patent Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
3 of 4 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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What's changing
Jan 2034
Term ends Jan 26, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 177 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,562,253, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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