Also listed on LS9, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends no later than Sep 24, 2030 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Held by Again Technology Holdings Inc.

Filed Oct 7, 2009 as application 12/575,430 · Granted Apr 7, 2015

Base term plus 352 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Ends no later than Sep 24, 2030

2009 2030

Clock starts
Oct 7, 2009

Ends no later than
Sep 24, 2030

Granted
Apr 7, 2015

base term patent term adjustment 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

352

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

Unresolved

Terminal disclaimer

On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.

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.

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 352 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Oct 7, 2009, when this application, 12/575,430, was filed	Oct 7, 2029	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+352 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Sep 24, 2030	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved	no cap applied, and none guessed	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	3 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	no later than Sep 24, 2030	Medium confidence

This family

US 8,999,686	this patent no later than Sep 2030	no later than Sep 2030
US 9,068,201	Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2023	Jun 2023
US 9,890,401	Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2026	Feb 2026
US 10,961,553	In force Oct 2029	Oct 2029
Application 17/164,025	Abandoned not computed	not computed

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
Dec 11, 2009 Reel 23638, frame 932	Hu, Zhihao	LS9, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 18, 2012 Reel 29154, frame 399	Hu, Zhihao; Arlagadda, Vikranth	LS9, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 7, 2014 Reel 34193, frame 175	LS9, Inc.	Reg Life Sciences, LLC	Amendment to Patent Assignment
Apr 7, 2015 Reel 35391, frame 384	LS9, Inc.	Reg Life Sciences, LLC	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Schedule a, Line 221 Previously Recorded on Reel 034193 Frame 0175. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correct Application Number.
Oct 9, 2019 Reel 50695, frame 661	Reg Life Sciences, LLC	Genomatica, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 2, 2025 Reel 71471, frame 770	Genomatica, Inc.	Oxford Finance LLC	Security Interest
Aug 7, 2026 Reel 76153, frame 826	Genomatica, Inc.	Gma (ABC), LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 13, 2026 Reel 76184, frame 531	Gma (ABC), LLC	Again Technology Holdings Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's 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

Sep 2030

Term ends no later than Sep 24, 2030. No further fees fall due before then

Note

A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed

Note

The 352 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Open question

A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Sep 24, 2030. We will not guess the cap.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2015 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

This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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