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US 11,567,006 In force, term unresolved
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends no later than Jan 31, 2036 · Low confidence

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Filed Jan 23, 2020 as application 16/751,135 · Granted Jan 31, 2023
Base term plus 177 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2015 2036
Clock starts
Aug 7, 2015
Ends no later than
Jan 31, 2036
Granted
Jan 31, 2023
base term patent term adjustment 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
177
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
0 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.
8
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 177 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 7, 2015, when application 14/821,656, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 23, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Aug 7, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+177 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 31, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Jan 31, 2036Low confidence

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no later than Aug 2035
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Dec 2035
Dec 2035
US 11,567,006this patent
no later than Jan 2036
no later than Jan 2036
US 11,209,363Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2025
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Aug 2035
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7 of 8 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
Jan 27, 2020
Reel 51627, frame 936
Rothberg, Jonathan M.; Sickler, Jason W.; West, Lawrence C.; Ahmad, Faisal; Huang, Brendan; Glenn, Paul E.; Schultz, Jonathan C.; Camara, JoseQuantum-Si IncorporatedAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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