Term ends Oct 2, 2028 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 2, 2028
Held by Labrador Diagnostics LLC
Filed Mar 14, 2016 as application 15/069,843 · Granted Jun 21, 2022
Base term plus 65 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Oct 2, 2008
Oct 2, 2008
Term ends
Oct 2, 2028
Oct 2, 2028
Granted
Jun 21, 2022
Jun 21, 2022
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
65
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 11,061,022, US 11,092,593, US 11,137,391, US 8,088,593, US 9,581,588.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
22
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 65 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 1 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Oct 2, 2008, when application 12/244,723, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 14, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 2, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +65 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 6, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,061,022, US 11,092,593, US 11,137,391, US 8,088,593, US 9,581,588) | capped to Oct 2, 2028 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 14670200, 13889674, 13326023, 12244723 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 2, 2028 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,088,593 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 9,435,793 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 8,822,167 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 9,121,851 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 8,697,377 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 9,012,163 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 9,285,366 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 9,581,588 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
8 of 22 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 19, 2016 Reel 38324, frame 58 | Burd, Tammy; Gibbons, Ian; Holmes, Elizabeth A.; Frenzel, Gary; Nugent, Anthony J. | Theranos, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 12, 2017 Reel 44838, frame 909 | Theranos Inc. | Theranos IP Company, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 12, 2017 Reel 44839, frame 568 | Theranos IP Company, LLC | Fortress Credit Corp. | Security Interest |
| Jan 16, 2018 Reel 45101, frame 315 | Theranos, Inc. | Theranos IP Company, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 7, 2020 Reel 52329, frame 716 | Theranos IP Company LLC | Labrador Diagnostics LLC | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Oct 2028
Term ends Oct 2, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 65 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 11,061,022, US 11,092,593, US 11,137,391, US 8,088,593, US 9,581,588.
Citations
38
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.