Term ends May 10, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 10, 2030
Held by Broncus Medical Inc.
Filed Jan 23, 2018 as application 15/878,164 · Granted Oct 6, 2020
Base term plus 356 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
May 10, 2010
May 10, 2010
Term ends
May 10, 2030
May 10, 2030
Granted
Oct 6, 2020
Oct 6, 2020
base term
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
356
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 9,907,543.
1 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.
4
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 356 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 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 10, 2010, when application 12/776,978, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 23, 2018) | May 10, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +356 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 1, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,907,543) | capped to May 10, 2030 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 10, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,517,955 | In force Jul 2031 | Jul 2031 |
| US 9,307,960 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| US 9,907,543 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| US 10,792,022 | this patent May 2030 | May 2030 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 2018 Reel 44705, frame 559 | Keast, Thomas; Weiss, Aaron M.; Gwerder, Eric J.; Schwardt, Jeffrey; Roschak, Edmund J. | Broncus Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 23, 2018 Reel 44705, frame 634 | Broncus Technologies, Inc. | Broncus Medical Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2030
Term ends May 10, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 356 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 9,907,543.
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.