Term ends Feb 22, 2043 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 15, 2040
Held by SCK.Cen
Filed Jul 14, 2021 as application 17/422,968 · Granted Dec 23, 2025
Base term plus 1134 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2043
Clock starts
Jan 15, 2020
Jan 15, 2020
Term ends
Feb 22, 2043
Feb 22, 2043
Granted
Dec 23, 2025
Dec 23, 2025
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
1,134
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 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.
2
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 1134 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Jan 15, 2020, when application PCT/EP2020/050879, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 14, 2021) | Jan 15, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1134 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 22, 2043 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 22, 2043 | High confidence |
This family
| US 12,503,748 | this patent Feb 2043 | Feb 2043 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2021 Reel 56854, frame 187 | Maertens, Dominic; Van Hecke, Karen; Cardinaels, Thomas | SCK.Cen | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2043
Term ends Feb 22, 2043. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1134 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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