Term ends Sep 10, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 9, 2034
Held by Rarecyte, Inc.
Filed Apr 9, 2014 as application 14/248,510 · Granted Dec 13, 2016
Base term plus 154 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Apr 9, 2014
Apr 9, 2014
Term ends
Sep 10, 2034
Sep 10, 2034
Granted
Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 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
154
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 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.
13
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 154 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 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 Apr 9, 2014, when this application, 14/248,510, was filed | Apr 9, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +154 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 10, 2034 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 10, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,519,002 | this patent Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 9,227,188 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2015/019763 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,222,953 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| Application 14/643,806 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 14/948,331 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,072,927 | In force Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| US 9,810,605 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 2014 Reel 32644, frame 987 | Nordberg, Joshua; Quarre, Steve | Rarecyte, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 29, 2019 Reel 48746, frame 498 | Rarecyte, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank, An Arizona Corporation | Security Interest |
| Dec 30, 2019 Reel 51445, frame 343 | Western Alliance Bank, An Arizona Corporation | Rarecyte, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2034
Term ends Sep 10, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 154 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
4
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
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