Term ends Aug 1, 2035 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 25, 2034
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Filed Aug 2, 2023 as application 18/363,859 · Granted Nov 3, 2026
Base term plus 494 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014
Term ends
Aug 1, 2035
Aug 1, 2035
Granted
Nov 3, 2026
Nov 3, 2026
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
494
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
8
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 494 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Mar 25, 2014, when application PCT/BE2014/000013, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 2, 2023); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 25, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +494 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 1, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 1, 2035 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,006,905 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| Application 15/192,317 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,514,378 | In force no later than Mar 2034 | no later than Mar 2034 |
| US 10,802,015 | In force no later than Mar 2034 | no later than Mar 2034 |
| US 10,976,311 | In force no later than Mar 2034 | no later than Mar 2034 |
| US 11,761,956 | In force no later than Mar 2034 | no later than Mar 2034 |
| US 12,782,343 | this patent Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
7 of 8 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2024 Reel 66979, frame 549 | Maglia, Giovanni; Soskine, Mikhael | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2035
Term ends Aug 1, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 494 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
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