Term ended Oct 26, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 26, 2025
Held by P Tech, LLC
Filed Aug 31, 2010 as application 12/872,140 · Granted Oct 27, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Oct 26, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Oct 26, 2005
Oct 26, 2005
Term ended
Oct 26, 2025
Oct 26, 2025
Granted
Oct 27, 2020
Oct 27, 2020
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
30
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 26, 2005, when application 11/258,795, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 31, 2010) | Oct 26, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 26, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,463,012 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Application 11/258,795 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,173,647 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2023 | Nov 2023 |
| Application 12/576,992 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,813,764 | this patent Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2010/052018 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,814,453 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 9,867,706 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
8 of 30 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 31, 2014 Reel 34607, frame 159 | Bonutti, Peter | P Tech, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Citations
175
later US patents cite this one
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