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Nucleic Acid-Guided Nucleases

US 10,626,416 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Jun 23, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Aug 22, 2019 as application 16/548,631 · Granted Apr 21, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
Jun 23, 2017
Term ends
Jun 23, 2037
Granted
Apr 21, 2020
base term 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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,011,849, US 10,435,714, to Jun 23, 2037. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 23, 2017, when application 15/631,989, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 22, 2019)Jun 23, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,011,849, US 10,435,714)resolves to Jun 23, 2037, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 23, 2037High confidence

This family

US 10,011,849In force
Jun 2037
Jun 2037
US 10,435,714In force
Jun 2037
Jun 2037
US 10,626,416this patent
Jun 2037
Jun 2037
Application 16/819,896Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 11,130,970In force
Jun 2037
Jun 2037
US 11,220,697In force
Jun 2037
Jun 2037
US 11,306,327In force
Jun 2037
Jun 2037
US 12,195,749In force
no later than Jun 2037
no later than Jun 2037
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
Oct 24, 2019
Reel 50823, frame 39
Gill, Ryan T.; Garst, Andrew; Warnecke Lipscomb, Tanya ElizabethMuse Biotechnology, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 24, 2019
Reel 50823, frame 375
Muse Biotechnology, Inc.Inscripta, Inc.Change of Name
Sep 15, 2025
Reel 72252, frame 203
Inscripta, Inc.,; Manus Inscripta, Inc.Manus Inscripta, Inc.Merger and Change of Name

Sources

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

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