Also listed on Midori USA, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Feb 27, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 27, 2032
Held by DSM Nutritional Products, LLC
Filed Feb 27, 2012 as application 13/406,490 · Granted Jul 14, 2015
Base term plus 559 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Feb 27, 2012
Feb 27, 2012
Term ends
Feb 27, 2032
Feb 27, 2032
Granted
Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015
base term
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
559
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,466,242.
2 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 runs 559 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 27, 2012, when this application, 13/406,490, was filed | Feb 27, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +559 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 8, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,466,242) | capped to Feb 27, 2032 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 27, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,079,171 | this patent Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
| US 10,131,721 | In force no later than Jul 2032 | no later than Jul 2032 |
| US 10,787,527 | In force Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2012 Reel 28413, frame 729 | Geremia, John M.; Baynes, Brian M. | Midori Renewables, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 10, 2014 Reel 34468, frame 248 | Dhawan, Ashish | Midori Renewables, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 3, 2015 Reel 35819, frame 885 | Midori Renewables, Inc. | Midori USA, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jul 24, 2017 Reel 43083, frame 379 | Midori USA, Inc. | Cadena Bio, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 9, 2022 Reel 61404, frame 320 | Kaleido Biosciences, Inc.; Cardena Bio, Inc. | Hercules Capital, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 10, 2022 Reel 61362, frame 1 | Hercules Capital, Inc. | DSM Nutritional Products, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 18, 2022 Reel 61700, frame 414 | Kaleido Biosciences, Inc.; Cadena Bio, Inc. | Hercules Capital, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Second Assignor Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 061404 Frame: 0320. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2032
Term ends Feb 27, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 559 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,466,242.
Citations
29
later US patents cite this one
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