Term ends Apr 22, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 22, 2036
Held by Hemanext Inc.
Filed Sep 19, 2017 as application 15/708,925 · Granted Dec 1, 2020
Base term plus 555 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Apr 22, 2016
Apr 22, 2016
Term ends
Apr 22, 2036
Apr 22, 2036
Granted
Dec 1, 2020
Dec 1, 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
555
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,801,784.
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.
5
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 555 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Apr 22, 2016, when application PCT/US2016/029069, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 19, 2017) | Apr 22, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +555 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 29, 2037 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,801,784) | capped to Apr 22, 2036 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 22, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2016/029069 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,801,784 | In force Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| US 10,849,824 | this patent Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| US 12,201,584 | In force no later than May 2039 | no later than May 2039 |
| Application 18/819,738 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 20, 2017 Reel 43641, frame 768 | Yoshida, Tatsuro; Cordero, Rafael; Sarita, Jancarlo; Zocchi, Michael; Wolf, Michael; Keegan, Philip Michael; Sutton, Jeffrey Karl; Renganathan, Narendran | New Health Sciences, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 6, 2020 Reel 52326, frame 243 | New Health Sciences, Inc. | Hemanext Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Apr 2036
Term ends Apr 22, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 555 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,801,784.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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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.