Term ended Feb 1, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 1, 2026
Held by Applied Biosystems, LLC
Filed Jan 9, 2013 as application 13/737,534 · Granted Dec 22, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Feb 1, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Feb 1, 2006
Feb 1, 2006
Term ended
Feb 1, 2026
Feb 1, 2026
Granted
Dec 22, 2015
Dec 22, 2015
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
10
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. 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 Feb 1, 2006, when application 11/345,979, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 9, 2013) | Feb 1, 2026 | 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 | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 1, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/345,979 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/220,201 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,431,691 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Application 12/628,209 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/629,858 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,329,404 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 9,217,177 | this patent Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 9,493,830 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2015 Reel 36552, frame 923 | Agencourt Bioscience Corporation | Agencourt Personal Genomics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 14, 2015 Reel 36554, frame 676 | Applera Corporation | Applied Biosystems Inc. | Merger |
| Sep 14, 2015 Reel 36554, frame 752 | Applied Biosystems Inc. | Applied Biosystems, LLC | Merger |
| Sep 14, 2015 Reel 36599, frame 137 | McKernan, Kevin; Blanchard, Alan; Kotler, Lev; Costa, Gina | Agencourt Bioscience Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 14, 2015 Reel 36599, frame 373 | Agencourt Personal Genomics, Inc. | Applera Corporation | Merger |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
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