Lapsed Jul 28, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 21, 2026
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Covidien LP
Filed Sep 10, 2014 as application 14/482,061 · Granted Jul 28, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 761 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 28, 2024
2006
2028
Clock starts
Jul 21, 2006
Jul 21, 2006
No longer in force
Jul 28, 2024
Jul 28, 2024
Granted
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020
Term would have run to
Aug 20, 2028
Aug 20, 2028
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
761
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
7
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 Aug 20, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 761 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 Jul 21, 2006, when application 11/491,348, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 10, 2014) | Jul 21, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +761 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 20, 2028 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 28, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 28, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/491,348 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,837,677 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 8,043,285 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 8,852,178 | Term ended no later than Jul 2026 | no later than Jul 2026 |
| US 10,722,284 | this patent Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 11,672,587 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 12,539,161 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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Note
The 761 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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