Also listed on Applera Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 12, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 1, 2026
Held by Applied Biosystems Inc.
Filed Oct 18, 2013 as application 14/057,055 · Granted Nov 15, 2016
Base term plus 314 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2026
Clock starts
Feb 1, 2006
Feb 1, 2006
Term ends
Dec 12, 2026
Dec 12, 2026
Granted
Nov 15, 2016
Nov 15, 2016
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
314
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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 runs 314 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Oct 18, 2013) | Feb 1, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +314 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 12, 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 12, 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 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 9,493,830 | this patent 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 9, 2016 Reel 39685, frame 986 | McKernan, Kevin; Blanchard, Alan; Kotler, Lev; Costa, Gina | Agencourt Bioscience Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 9, 2016 Reel 39686, frame 777 | Agencourt Bioscience Corporation | Agencourt Personal Genomics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 9, 2016 Reel 39690, frame 24 | Agencourt Personal Genomics, Inc. | Applera Corporation | Merger |
| Sep 9, 2016 Reel 39690, frame 130 | Applera Corporation | Applied Biosystems Inc. | Merger |
| Sep 9, 2016 Reel 39690, frame 231 | Atom Acquisition Corporation | Applied Biosystems Inc. | Merger |
| Sep 9, 2016 Reel 39690, frame 365 | Atom Acquisition, LLC & Applied Biosystems Inc. | Applied Biosystems, LLC | Merger |
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.
What's changing
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 12, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 314 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2016 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.