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A Method of Preparing Thermally Inhibited Grain

US 12,501,904 In force
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Term ends Jul 18, 2038 · High confidence

Filed Nov 9, 2022 as application 17/983,529 · Granted Dec 23, 2025
Base term plus 499 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2038
Clock starts
Mar 6, 2017
Term ends
Jul 18, 2038
Granted
Dec 23, 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
499
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.
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 runs 499 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 6, 2017, when application 15/451,081, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 9, 2022)Mar 6, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+499 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 18, 2038High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 18, 2038High confidence

This family

Application 15/451,081Abandoned
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Application PCT/US2018/050377PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,180,575In force
Dec 2039
Dec 2039
Application PCT/US2019/068663PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,653,687In force
Apr 2039
Apr 2039
Application 17/240,923Abandoned
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Application 17/417,966Abandoned
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US 12,501,904this patent
Jul 2038
Jul 2038
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
Oct 1, 2025
Reel 72437, frame 748
Lane, Christopher; Shah, TarakIngredion IncorporatedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 1, 2025
Reel 72437, frame 874
Ingredion IncorporatedCorn Products Development, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 15, 2025
Reel 72575, frame 963
Jiang, HongxinIngredion IncorporatedAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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