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Cannula Assembly Kit

US 11,331,120 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed May 17, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 8, 2017 as application 15/589,476 · Granted May 17, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 691 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 17, 2026
2016 2038
Clock starts
Jul 1, 2016
No longer in force
May 17, 2026
Granted
May 17, 2022
Term would have run to
May 23, 2038
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
691
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.
4
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 May 23, 2038: its 20-year base term plus 691 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 1, 2016, when application PCT/DK2016/050234, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 8, 2017)Jul 1, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+691 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 23, 2038High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 17, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 17, 2026High confidence

This family

US 11,331,120this patent
May 2026
May 2026
US 11,020,144In force
Apr 2037
Apr 2037
Application 17/320,417Abandoned
not computed
not computed
3 of 4 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
Mar 4, 2022
Reel 59171, frame 635
Hansen, Steen Møller; Kirkegaard, Henriette Schultz3DINTEGRATED APSAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 22, 2022
Reel 60274, frame 505
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.3DINTEGRATED APSAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 22, 2022
Reel 60274, frame 645
Ethicon LLC3DINTEGRATED APSAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 22, 2022
Reel 60274, frame 758
Cilag GmbH International3DINTEGRATED APSAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 1, 2022
Reel 61607, frame 631
3DINTEGRATED APSCilag GmbH InternationalAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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