Term ends Mar 24, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 12, 2030
Held by Sonendo, Inc.
Filed Oct 28, 2021 as application 17/452,731 · Granted Apr 8, 2025
Base term plus 177 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2010
2031
Clock starts
Nov 12, 2010
Nov 12, 2010
Term ends
Mar 24, 2031
Mar 24, 2031
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Apr 8, 2025
base term
patent term adjustment
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
177
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 9,492,244.
0 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
6
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 resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 1 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 12, 2010, when application 12/945,791, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 28, 2021) | Nov 12, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +177 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 8, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,492,244) | capped to Mar 24, 2031 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 24, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,492,244 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2011/057401 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,420,630 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| US 11,160,645 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 12,268,565 | this patent Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| Application 19/172,072 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2021 Reel 57955, frame 445 | Bergheim, Bjarne; Gharib, Morteza; Khakpour, Mehrzad; Pham, Michele; Tebbs, Richard S. | Dentatek Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 28, 2021 Reel 57970, frame 196 | Dentatek Corporation | Sonendo, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2031
Term ends Mar 24, 2031. 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
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,492,244.
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
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