Term ended Apr 15, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 25, 2025
Held by Standard Biotools Inc.
Filed Jan 25, 2005 as application 11/043,895 · Granted Jan 31, 2012
Base term plus 80 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 15, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jan 25, 2005
Jan 25, 2005
Term ended
Apr 15, 2025
Apr 15, 2025
Granted
Jan 31, 2012
Jan 31, 2012
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
80
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.
5
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 80 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 Jan 25, 2005, when this application, 11/043,895, was filed | Jan 25, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +80 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 15, 2025 | 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 | Apr 15, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,105,553 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 7,867,763 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,704,735 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 9,623,413 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 8,105,824 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2005 Reel 15791, frame 478 | Grossman, Robert; Unger, Marc; Lam, Phillip; Chou, Hou-pu; Kimball, Jake; Pieprzyk, Martin | Fluidigm Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 1, 2007 Reel 19899, frame 313 | Fluidigm Corporation - a California Corporation | Fluidigm Corporation - a Delaware Corporation | Reincorporation Assignment |
| Sep 15, 2022 Reel 61448, frame 305 | Fluidigm Corporation | Standard Biotools Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 80 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
86
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2012 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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