Term ended Oct 14, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 22, 2027
Filed Aug 16, 2011 as application 13/211,113 · Granted May 21, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Oct 14, 2025
2007
2027
Clock starts
Jan 22, 2007
Jan 22, 2007
Term ended
Oct 14, 2025
Oct 14, 2025
Granted
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,393,665.
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.
3
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 22, 2007, when application 11/656,746, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 16, 2011) | Jan 22, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,393,665) | capped to Oct 14, 2025 | 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 | Oct 14, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,544,473 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 8,021,842 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 8,445,205 | this patent Oct 2025 | Oct 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2012 Reel 27511, frame 373 | Compass Genetics, LLC | Population Genetics Technologies Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 10, 2012 Reel 27511, frame 457 | Brenner, Sydney | Compass Genetics, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2018 Reel 46937, frame 689 | Population Genetics Technologies Ltd. | Personal Genome Diagnostics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 25, 2020 Reel 53039, frame 815 | Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. | Pacific Western Bank | Security Interest |
| Sep 14, 2020 Reel 53756, frame 369 | Pacific Western Bank | Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. | 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.
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,393,665.
Citations
181
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2013 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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