Term ends Apr 12, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 14, 2031
Held by Abbott Laboratories
Filed Dec 14, 2011 as application 13/326,034 · Granted Dec 15, 2020
Base term plus 1215 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2035
Clock starts
Dec 14, 2011
Dec 14, 2011
Term ends
Apr 12, 2035
Apr 12, 2035
Granted
Dec 15, 2020
Dec 15, 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
1,215
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.
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 runs 1215 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 Dec 14, 2011, when this application, 13/326,034, was filed | Dec 14, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1215 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 12, 2035 | 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 | Apr 12, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,867,274 | this patent Apr 2035 | Apr 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2012/069434 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,134,203 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2019 | Sep 2019 |
| Application PCT/US2012/071850 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,993,820 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 9,632,103 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 9,513,303 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| Application 14/214,210 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 2012 Reel 27673, frame 566 | Jones, John Curtis; Fritchie, Patrick P.; Kotlinski, Steve; Sailer, Jay Brian; Soni, Pathik H.; Iwen, Erich; Hohs, Ronald R.; Williams, William B. | Abbott Laboratories | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Apr 2035
Term ends Apr 12, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1215 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
30
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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