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Devices and Methods for Analyzing Biological Samples

US 12,440,837 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Jan 7, 2042 · Low confidence

Filed Apr 11, 2025 as application 19/177,401 · Granted Oct 14, 2025
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2022 2042
Clock starts
Jan 7, 2022
Term ends
Jan 7, 2042
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
base term 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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 12,151,242, to Jan 7, 2042. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
18
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 is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 0 of 3 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 7, 2022, when application PCT/US2022/011720, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 11, 2025); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jan 7, 2042High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 12,151,242)resolves to Jan 7, 2042, no earlier than this term, so no changeMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 7, 2042Low confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2022/011720PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 17/669,315Abandoned
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US 11,554,370In force
Jan 2042
Jan 2042
Application 17/896,742Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 12,030,047In force
no later than Jan 2042
no later than Jan 2042
US 12,151,242In force
no later than Jan 2042
no later than Jan 2042
US 12,303,892In force
Jan 2042
Jan 2042
US 12,440,837this patent
Jan 2042
Jan 2042
8 of 18 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
Jul 22, 2025
Reel 71796, frame 833
Khurana, Tarun Kumar; Agah, Ali; Wu, Yir-shyuan; Yasar, Filiz GorpeCellanome, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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