Term ended May 23, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 29, 2025
Held by Bioarray Solutions Ltd.
Filed Mar 29, 2005 as application 11/092,420 · Granted Apr 22, 2008
Base term plus 420 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 23, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Mar 29, 2005
Mar 29, 2005
Term ended
May 23, 2026
May 23, 2026
Granted
Apr 22, 2008
Apr 22, 2008
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
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
420
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
9
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 420 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Mar 29, 2005, when this application, 11/092,420, was filed | Mar 29, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +420 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 23, 2026 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 23, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,363,170 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 7,613,573 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2007/067420 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 11/876,922 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2007/072193 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 12/546,234 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 14/281,190 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/014,688 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 2007 Reel 20013, frame 614 | Danehy, Robert James; Seul, Michael | Bioarray Solutions | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 7, 2008 Reel 20640, frame 899 | Bioarray Solutions, Ltd. | BCT Holdings LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 14, 2008 Reel 21230, frame 446 | BCT Holdings, Inc. | Bioarray Solutions Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 22, 2008 Reel 21266, frame 829 | BCT Holdings, Inc. | Bioarray Solutions Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 19, 2011 Reel 26778, frame 640 | Immucor, Inc.; Bioarray Solutions Ltd. | Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Jul 2, 2020 Reel 53119, frame 135 | Immucor, Inc.; Bioarray Solutions Ltd.; Sirona Genomics, Inc.; Immucor Gti Diagnostics Inc. | HPS Investment Partners, LLC, as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 2, 2020 Reel 53119, frame 152 | Immucor, Inc.; Bioarray Solutions Ltd.; Sirona Genomics, Inc.; Immucor Gti Diagnostics Inc. | Alter Domus (US) LLC, as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 2, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Citibank, N.a. | Immucor, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interests |
| Jul 2, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Citibank, N.a. | Bioarray Solutions Ltd. | Release of Patent Security Interests |
| Jul 2, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Citibank, N.a. | Immucor Gti Diagnostics, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interests |
| Jul 2, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Citibank, N.a. | Sirona Genonics, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interests |
| Jul 2, 2020 Reel 53121, frame 935 | Citibank, N.a. | Immucor, Inc.; Bioarray Solutions Ltd.; Immucor Gti Diagnostics, Inc.; Sirona Genonics, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Interests |
| Mar 15, 2023 Reel 63090, frame 33 | HPS Investment Partners, LLC, as Administrative Agent | Immucor, Inc.; Bioarray Solutions Ltd.; Sirona Genomics, Inc.; Immucor Gti Diagnostics, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 15, 2023 Reel 63090, frame 111 | Alter Domus (US) LLC, as Collateral Agent | Immucor, Inc.; Bioarray Solutions Ltd.; Sirona Genomics, Inc.; Immucor Gti Diagnostics, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 15, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | HPS Investment Partners, LLC, as Administrative Agent | Immucor, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 15, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | HPS Investment Partners, LLC, as Administrative Agent | Bioarray Solutions Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 15, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | HPS Investment Partners, LLC, as Administrative Agent | Sirona Genomics, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 15, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | HPS Investment Partners, LLC, as Administrative Agent | Immucor Gti Diagnostics, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 15, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Alter Domus (US) LLC, as Collateral Agent | Immucor, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 15, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Alter Domus (US) LLC, as Collateral Agent | Bioarray Solutions Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 15, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Alter Domus (US) LLC, as Collateral Agent | Sirona Genomics, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 15, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Alter Domus (US) LLC, as Collateral Agent | Immucor Gti Diagnostics, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 420 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
54
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2008 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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