Term ends Jul 18, 2034 · Low confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Universite de Montpellier

Filed Jun 23, 2022 as application 17/847,380 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Base term plus 290 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jul 18, 2034

2014 2034

Clock starts
Jul 18, 2014

Term ends
Jul 18, 2034

Granted
Feb 18, 2025

base term 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

290

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 10,035,835, US 10,407,480, US 10,787,493, US 11,396,532, US 9,914,759.

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.

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 290 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Jul 18, 2014, when application PCT/EP2014/065554, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 23, 2022); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Jul 18, 2034	High confidence
Continuity chain	A parent in the chain could not be resolved	dated from this application's own claim	Medium confidence
Patent term adjustment	+290 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	May 4, 2035	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,035,835, US 10,407,480, US 10,787,493, US 11,396,532, US 9,914,759)	capped to Jul 18, 2034	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	0 of 2 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Further caveats on record	The record names parents not resolved: 16020469, 15883925, 14905354, 16020469	Low confidence overall	Low confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jul 18, 2034	Low confidence

This family

US 9,914,759	In force Jul 2034	Jul 2034
US 10,035,835	In force Jul 2034	Jul 2034
US 10,407,480	In force Jul 2034	Jul 2034
US 10,787,493	In force Jul 2034	Jul 2034
US 11,396,532	In force Jul 2034	Jul 2034
US 12,227,550	this patent Jul 2034	Jul 2034
Application 19/021,433	Pending not computed	not computed

7 of 8 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
Nov 9, 2022 Reel 61707, frame 297	Tavernier, Jan; Bultinck, Jennyfer; Peelman, Frank; Uzè, Gilles	Vib VZW; Universiteit Gent; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Universite Montpellier 2; Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Montpellier	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 9, 2022 Reel 61907, frame 509	Universite Montpellier 2; Universite de Montpellier	Universite de Montpellier	Merger and Change of Name
Nov 9, 2022 reel/frame not recorded	Uzè, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer	Vib VZW	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 9, 2022 reel/frame not recorded	Uzè, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer	Universiteit Gent	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 9, 2022 reel/frame not recorded	Uzè, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 9, 2022 reel/frame not recorded	Uzè, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer	Universite Montpellier 2	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 9, 2022 reel/frame not recorded	Uzè, Gilles; Tavernier, Jan; Peelman, Frank; Bultinck, Jennyfer	Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Montpellier	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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What's changing

Jul 2034

Term ends Jul 18, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 290 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 10,035,835, US 10,407,480, US 10,787,493, US 11,396,532, US 9,914,759.

Citations

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