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Agricultural Compositions Comprising Remodeled Nitrogen Fixing Microbes

US 12,290,074 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 22, 2025 (HSBC Bank USA, N.A.).

Term ends Jan 12, 2038 · High confidence

Filed Apr 16, 2024 as application 18/636,988 · Granted May 6, 2025
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2019 2039
Clock starts
Jun 26, 2019
Term ends
Jan 12, 2038
Granted
May 6, 2025
base term after the term ends 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,565,979.
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.
11
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jun 26, 2019, when application PCT/US2019/039217, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 16, 2024)Jun 26, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,565,979)capped to Jan 12, 2038High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 12, 2038High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2019/039217PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,963,530In force
Jun 2039
Jun 2039
US 11,678,668In force
Jun 2039
Jun 2039
US 11,678,667In force
Jun 2039
Jun 2039
US 12,268,212In force
Jun 2039
Jun 2039
US 12,290,074this patent
Jan 2038
Jan 2038
US 12,471,599In force
Jun 2039
Jun 2039
Application 19/363,148Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 11 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
Apr 24, 2024
Reel 67213, frame 376
Reisinger, Mark; Sanders, Ernest; Broglie, Richard; Temme, KarstenPivot Bio, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 22, 2025
Reel 73285, frame 20
Pivot Bio, Inc.HSBC Bank USA, N.A.Security Interest

Sources

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

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