Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 4, 2022 (Covidien Group S.Á R.L.).
Term ends Sep 29, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 24, 2033
Held by Cathworks Ltd.
Filed Apr 25, 2016 as application 15/031,815 · Granted Sep 24, 2019
Base term plus 407 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013
Term ends
Sep 29, 2033
Sep 29, 2033
Granted
Sep 24, 2019
Sep 24, 2019
base term
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
407
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 10,595,807, US 9,814,433.
1 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.
37
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 407 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Oct 24, 2013, when application PCT/IL2013/050869, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 25, 2016) | Oct 24, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +407 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 5, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,595,807, US 9,814,433) | capped to Sep 29, 2033 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 29, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,858,387 | In force Oct 2035 | Oct 2035 |
| US 9,943,233 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 9,814,433 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 10,210,956 | In force Oct 2035 | Oct 2035 |
| US 10,595,807 | In force Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
| US 10,424,063 | this patent Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 9,977,869 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 10,470,730 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
8 of 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2016 Reel 38741, frame 712 | Lavi, Guy; Merhav, Uri; Lavi, Ifat | Cathworks Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 4, 2022 Reel 60723, frame 210 | Cathworks Ltd. | Covidien Group S.Á R.L. | Security Interest |
| Jun 16, 2026 Reel 74968, frame 338 | Cathworks Ltd. | Covidien Group S.À.R.L. | Release of Security Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2033
Term ends Sep 29, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 407 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 10,595,807, US 9,814,433.
Citations
82
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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