Term ended May 23, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 24, 2026
Held by Golden Diagnostics Corp.
Filed Mar 24, 2006 as application 11/389,409 · Granted Dec 22, 2009
Base term plus 60 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 23, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Mar 24, 2006
Mar 24, 2006
Term ended
May 23, 2026
May 23, 2026
Granted
Dec 22, 2009
Dec 22, 2009
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
60
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
31
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 60 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Mar 24, 2006, when this application, 11/389,409, was filed | Mar 24, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +60 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 23, 2026 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 23, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,291,497 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,101,402 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 8,202,697 | Term ended no later than Nov 2024 | no later than Nov 2024 |
| US 8,679,407 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 8,841,076 | Term ended Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 7,888,125 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 7,635,594 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
| Application 11/389,410 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2006 Reel 17998, frame 445 | Holmes, Elizabeth A.; Roy, Shaunak; Howard, John; Wang, Chengwang; Gibbons, Ian; Kemp, Tim; Qi, Shize Daniel | 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 |
| Jul 14, 2023 Reel 64262, frame 539 | Labrador Diagnostics LLC | Golden Diagnostics Top Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 14, 2023 Reel 64264, frame 393 | Golden Diagnostics Top Corp. | Golden Diagnostics Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Note
The 60 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
491
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2009 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
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