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Dose Detection and Drug Identification for a Medication Delivery Device

US 12,558,491 In force
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Term ends Oct 1, 2039 · High confidence

Filed Dec 20, 2022 as application 18/068,719 · Granted Feb 24, 2026
Base term plus 586 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2018 2039
Clock starts
Feb 22, 2018
Term ends
Oct 1, 2039
Granted
Feb 24, 2026
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
586
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.
7
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 586 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 Feb 22, 2018, when application PCT/US2018/019156, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 20, 2022)Feb 22, 2038High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+586 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 1, 2039High 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 orderOct 1, 2039High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2018/019156PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,541,186In force
Aug 2039
Aug 2039
US 10,987,472In force
Feb 2038
Feb 2038
US 12,151,088In force
Jul 2040
Jul 2040
US 11,426,527In force
Feb 2038
Feb 2038
US 12,558,491this patent
Oct 2039
Oct 2039
Application 19/542,790Pending
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 20, 2022
Reel 62157, frame 969
Massari, Rossano Claudio; Paccioretti, DavideFlextronics Design S.R.L.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 20, 2022
Reel 62158, frame 146
Byerly, Roy Howard; Murphy, Patrick Kevin; Perkins, Russell Wayne; Pszenny, Sean Matthew; Regele, Oliver Brian; Flextronics Design S.R.L.Eli Lilly and CompanyAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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