Also listed on Acera Surgical, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Feb 19, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 12, 2036
Filed May 12, 2016 as application 15/152,726 · Granted Apr 28, 2020
Base term plus 283 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016
Term ends
Feb 19, 2037
Feb 19, 2037
Granted
Apr 28, 2020
Apr 28, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
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
283
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
10
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 283 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 May 12, 2016, when this application, 15/152,726, was filed | May 12, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +283 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 19, 2037 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 19, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,632,228 | this patent Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,826,487 | In force May 2036 | May 2036 |
| US 11,224,677 | In force May 2036 | May 2036 |
| US 12,564,658 | In force May 2036 | May 2036 |
| Application 19/239,809 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 19/239,805 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 19/308,043 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 19/353,364 | Pending not computed | not computed |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2016 Reel 39620, frame 605 | Macewan, Matthew, PHD | Acera Surgical, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 12, 2019 Reel 49444, frame 313 | Acera Surgical, Inc. | Wilson Family Legacy Trust No. 1 | Security Interest |
| Dec 14, 2020 Reel 54638, frame 789 | Acera Surgical, Inc. | Wilson Family Legacy Trust No. I | Security Interest |
| Dec 23, 2025 Reel 73303, frame 131 | Wilson Family Legacy Trust No. I | Acera Surgical, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 12, 2026 Reel 74933, frame 515 | Acera Surgical, Inc. | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2037
Term ends Feb 19, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 283 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
42
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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