Term ends Jul 23, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 23, 2040
Held by Institut Pasteur
Filed Jul 23, 2020 as application 16/936,752 · Granted Jun 10, 2025
Base term plus 1265 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Jul 23, 2020
Jul 23, 2020
Term ends
Jul 23, 2040
Jul 23, 2040
Granted
Jun 10, 2025
Jun 10, 2025
base term
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
1,265
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 10,948,490.
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.
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 1265 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 3 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 Jul 23, 2020, when this application, 16/936,752, was filed | Jul 23, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1265 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 9, 2044 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,948,490) | capped to Jul 23, 2040 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 23, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 63/003,855 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 12,326,451 | this patent Jul 2040 | Jul 2040 |
| US 10,948,490 | In force Jul 2040 | Jul 2040 |
| US 11,815,513 | In force Jul 2040 | Jul 2040 |
| US 11,759,516 | In force Feb 2041 | Feb 2041 |
| US 12,136,181 | In force May 2042 | May 2042 |
| Application 18/003,413 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/257,727 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2021 Reel 55038, frame 496 | Van Der Werf, Sylvie; Demeret, Caroline; Escriou, Nicolas; Lafaye, Pierre; Petres, Stephane | Institut Pasteur | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 1, 2021 Reel 55097, frame 736 | Bellalou, Jacques | Institut Pasteur | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jul 2040
Term ends Jul 23, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1265 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 10,948,490.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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