Term ends Nov 5, 2039 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 17, 2037
Held by Cepheid
Filed Nov 20, 2020 as application 16/953,870 · Granted Feb 25, 2025
Base term plus 718 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2039
Clock starts
Nov 17, 2017
Nov 17, 2017
Term ends
Nov 5, 2039
Nov 5, 2039
Granted
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 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
718
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.
9
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 718 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Nov 17, 2017, when application 15/816,960, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 20, 2020) | Nov 17, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +718 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 5, 2039 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | 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 | Nov 5, 2039 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,871,498 | In force Dec 2038 | Dec 2038 |
| Application PCT/US2017/062419 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US D907,793 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US D908,301 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US D889,633 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 12,235,279 | this patent Nov 2039 | Nov 2039 |
| US D961,111 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US D1,040,463 | In force Aug 2039 | Aug 2039 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 2024 Reel 69449, frame 123 | Chang, Ronald; Montgomery, Steven; Mote, Gregory; Bliven, Brian | Cepheid | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2039
Term ends Nov 5, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 718 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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