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Cleavable Lipids

US 9,717,690 In force
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Term ends Feb 6, 2033 · High confidence

Filed Jun 4, 2014 as application 14/124,615 · Granted Aug 1, 2017
Base term plus 243 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2012 2033
Clock starts
Jun 8, 2012
Term ends
Feb 6, 2033
Granted
Aug 1, 2017
base term patent term adjustment fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
243
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.
9
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 243 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 8, 2012, when application PCT/US2012/041663, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 4, 2014)Jun 8, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+243 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 6, 2033High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 6, 2033High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2012/041663PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,717,690this patent
Feb 2033
Feb 2033
Application 15/651,832Abandoned
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US 10,507,183In force
Jun 2032
Jun 2032
US 10,702,478In force
Jun 2032
Jun 2032
US 11,234,936In force
Jun 2032
Jun 2032
US 12,102,720In force
Oct 2032
Oct 2032
Application 18/815,955Pending
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8 of 9 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Mar 28, 2014
Reel 32551, frame 705
Guild, Braydon Charles; Heartlein, Michael; Derosa, Frank; Zhang, Jerry ChiShire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 6, 2017
Reel 42177, frame 32
Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc.Rana Therapeutics, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 20, 2017
Reel 43267, frame 165
Rana Therapeutics, Inc.Translate Bio, Inc.Change of Name
Feb 10, 2021
Reel 55213, frame 294
Guild, Braydon Charles; Heartlein, Michael; Derosa, Frank; Zhang, Jerry ChiShire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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