Term ends Jul 6, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 23, 2032
Filed Oct 27, 2020 as application 17/081,013 · Granted Dec 26, 2023
Base term plus 409 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2033
Clock starts
May 23, 2012
May 23, 2012
Term ends
Jul 6, 2033
Jul 6, 2033
Granted
Dec 26, 2023
Dec 26, 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
409
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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 409 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are 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 May 23, 2012, when application PCT/IL2012/050185, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 27, 2020) | May 23, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +409 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 6, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 6, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 14/119,891 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,288,622 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| Application 16/352,879 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,852,634 | this patent Jul 2033 | Jul 2033 |
4 of 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 2020 Reel 54646, frame 721 | Herkel, Johannes | Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 15, 2020 Reel 54646, frame 583 | Ovadia, Eran; Cohen, Irun R.; Margalit, Raanan; Pevsner-fischer, Meirav | Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Jul 2033
Term ends Jul 6, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 409 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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