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Methods and Devices for Tissue Grasping and Assessment

US 11,304,715 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ended Sep 27, 2025 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on May 25, 2026.

Held by Evalve, Inc.
Filed Jun 25, 2020 as application 16/912,361 · Granted Apr 19, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Sep 27, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Sep 27, 2005
Term ended
Sep 27, 2025
Granted
Apr 19, 2022
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
7
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: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 27, 2005, when application 11/237,213, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 25, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Sep 27, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo maintenance fee can end the term earlyterm endedHigh confidence
USPTO status recordRecorded as expired for non-payment on May 25, 2026, after the term endedno changeHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 27, 2025Medium confidence

This family

US 7,635,329In force
Jun 2028
Jun 2028
Application 14/070,936Abandoned
not computed
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US 11,484,331Term ended
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
US 11,304,715this patent
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
US 12,121,231Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
5 of 7 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Feb 8, 2022
Reel 58931, frame 37
Goldfarb, Eric A.; Thornton, Troy L.; Raschdorf, Alfred H.; Sarabia, Jaime E.; Madden, John P.; Powell, Ferolyn T.; Martin, Brian B.; Wen-chin Fan, Sylvia; Komtebedde, Jan; Liao, Yen C.Evalve, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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