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Processes and Host Cells for Genome, Pathway, and Biomolecular Engineering

US 9,944,925 In force
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Term ends Dec 2, 2034 · High confidence

Filed Feb 1, 2016 as application 14/909,184 · Granted Apr 17, 2018
Base term plus 120 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2034
Clock starts
Aug 4, 2014
Term ends
Dec 2, 2034
Granted
Apr 17, 2018
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
120
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.
4
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 120 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

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 4, 2014, when application PCT/US2014/049649, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 1, 2016)Aug 4, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+120 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 2, 2034High 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 orderDec 2, 2034High confidence

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Application PCT/US2014/049649PCT application
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US 9,944,925this patent
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US 10,370,654In force
Aug 2034
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US 11,421,223In force
Aug 2034
Aug 2034
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
Feb 22, 2016
Reel 37782, frame 542
Konieczka, Jay H.; Spoonamore, James E.; Wapinski, Ilan N.; Isaacs, Farren J.; Foley, Gregory B.Enevolv, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 1, 2020
Reel 53116, frame 712
Enevolv, Inc.Perceptive Credit Holdings II, LPPatent Security Agreement
Jul 1, 2022
Reel 60422, frame 201
Perceptive Credit Holdings II, LP, as Administrative AgentEnevolv, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

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