Term ended Feb 28, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 7, 2038
Held by Smartlens, Inc.
Filed Nov 2, 2023 as application 18/500,766 · Granted Oct 14, 2025
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Feb 28, 2026
2018
2038
Clock starts
Sep 7, 2018
Sep 7, 2018
Term ended
Feb 28, 2026
Feb 28, 2026
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Oct 14, 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 10,898,074, US 12,262,950.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
5
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. 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 Sep 7, 2018, when application 16/124,630, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 2, 2023) | Sep 7, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,898,074, US 12,262,950) | capped to Feb 28, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 28, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,898,074 | In force Jun 2039 | Jun 2039 |
| US 11,759,107 | In force Feb 2039 | Feb 2039 |
| US 12,262,950 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 12,440,103 | this patent Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| Application 19/313,351 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2024 Reel 69254, frame 248 | Araci, Ismail Emre; Agaoglu, Sevda; Baday, Murat; Diep, Priscilla | Santa Clara University | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 13, 2024 Reel 69356, frame 647 | Santa Clara University | Smartlens, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,898,074, US 12,262,950.
Citations
0
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