Lapsed Oct 19, 2018 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 30, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Applied Biosystems, LLC
Filed Jun 30, 2006 as application 11/479,962 · Granted Oct 19, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1116 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 19, 2018
2006
2029
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2006
Jun 30, 2006
No longer in force
Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018
Granted
Oct 19, 2010
Oct 19, 2010
Term would have run to
Jul 20, 2029
Jul 20, 2029
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
1,116
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
5
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jul 20, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 1116 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jun 30, 2006, when this application, 11/479,962, was filed | Jun 30, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1116 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 20, 2029 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 19, 2018 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 19, 2018 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,663,750 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,817,273 | this patent Oct 2018 | Oct 2018 |
| US 9,146,194 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 9,488,571 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
4 of 5 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 19, 2006 Reel 18421, frame 627 | Bahatt, Dar; Patel, Chirag; Tan, Roy; Prothro, Derek K. | Applera Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 5, 2008 Reel 21976, frame 1 | Applied Biosystems, LLC | Bank of America, N.A, as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Feb 26, 2010 Reel 23994, frame 538 | Applera Corporation | Applied Biosystems Inc. | Change of Name |
| Feb 26, 2010 Reel 23994, frame 587 | Applied Biosystems Inc. | Applied Biosystems, LLC | Merger |
| Apr 9, 2013 Reel 30182, frame 677 | Bank Of America, N.a. | Applied Biosystems, Inc. | Lien Release |
| Mar 4, 2016 Reel 38006, frame 471 | Bank Of America, N.a. | Applied Biosystems, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 030182 Frame: 0677. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interest. |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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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 1116 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
117
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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