Lapsed Sep 8, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 4, 2035
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Hyperfine Operations, Inc.
Filed Sep 4, 2015 as application 14/846,158 · Granted Sep 8, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 591 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 8, 2024
2015
2037
Clock starts
Sep 4, 2015
Sep 4, 2015
No longer in force
Sep 8, 2024
Sep 8, 2024
Granted
Sep 8, 2020
Sep 8, 2020
Term would have run to
Apr 17, 2037
Apr 17, 2037
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
591
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.
9
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 Apr 17, 2037: its 20-year base term plus 591 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 Sep 4, 2015, when this application, 14/846,158, was filed | Sep 4, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +591 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 17, 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 8, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 8, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,768,255 | this patent Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| Application 15/132,617 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,379,186 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 10,145,922 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 10,591,564 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 10,613,181 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 10,466,327 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 12,153,113 | In force no later than Jul 2037 | no later than Jul 2037 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 2015 Reel 37233, frame 675 | Rothberg, Jonathan M.; Jordan, Jeremy Christopher; Poole, Michael Stephen; Sacolick, Laura; Rearick, Todd; Charvat, Gregory L. | Hyperfine Research, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2021 Reel 56700, frame 908 | Hyperfine Research, Inc. | Hyperfine, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 7, 2022 Reel 59332, frame 615 | Hyperfine, Inc. | Hyperfine Operations, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 591 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
105
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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