Lapsed Mar 11, 2018 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 20, 2029
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc.
Filed Jul 14, 2009 as application 12/502,626 · Granted Mar 11, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 282 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 11, 2018
2009
2030
Clock starts
May 20, 2009
May 20, 2009
No longer in force
Mar 11, 2018
Mar 11, 2018
Granted
Mar 11, 2014
Mar 11, 2014
Term would have run to
Feb 26, 2030
Feb 26, 2030
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
282
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.
74
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Feb 26, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 282 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 20, 2009, when application 12/469,207, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 14, 2009) | May 20, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +282 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 26, 2030 | 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 | lapsed Mar 11, 2018 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 11, 2018 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,723,124 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| Application 11/224,298 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/698,053 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/469,207 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,470,608 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,669,052 | this patent Mar 2018 | Mar 2018 |
| US 8,614,101 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2009/050653 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 74 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 15, 2009 Reel 22958, frame 130 | Sambursky, Robert P.; Babu, Uma Mahesh; Vandine, Robert W. | Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 1, 2014 Reel 32795, frame 883 | Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc. | MIG5 RPS, LLC | Security Interest |
| May 1, 2014 Reel 32795, frame 911 | Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc. | SRQ Diagnostic Ventures, LLC | Security Interest |
| Oct 10, 2014 Reel 33928, frame 865 | MIG5 RPS, LLC | Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 10, 2014 Reel 33929, frame 8 | SRQ Diagnostic Ventures, LLC | Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
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Note
The 282 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
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