Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 20, 2018 (Lumos Diagnostics Holdings Pty Ltd.).
Term ended Oct 24, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 9, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc.
Filed Sep 29, 2009 as application 12/568,970 · Granted May 21, 2013
Base term plus 622 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 24, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Feb 9, 2005
Feb 9, 2005
Term ended
Oct 24, 2026
Oct 24, 2026
Granted
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
622
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.
74
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 622 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Feb 9, 2005, when application 11/052,748, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 29, 2009); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 9, 2025 | 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 | +622 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 24, 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 | Oct 24, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,723,124 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| Application 11/224,298 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/698,053 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/469,207 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,470,608 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,669,052 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2018 | Mar 2018 |
| US 8,614,101 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2009/050653 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2010 Reel 23932, frame 390 | Babu, Uma Mahesh; Aberl, Franz; Schreibenzuber, Marcus; Sambursky, Robert P.; Vandine, Robert W.; Sambursky, Jose S. | Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 10, 2014 Reel 33929, frame 786 | Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc. | Ros Acquisition Offshore LP | Security Interest |
| Dec 20, 2018 Reel 47834, frame 30 | Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc.; RPS Diagnostics, Inc. | Lumos Diagnostics Holdings Pty Ltd. | Security Interest |
| Dec 20, 2018 Reel 47834, frame 367 | Ros Acquisition Offshore LP | Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 622 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
65
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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