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Systems and Methods for Visualizing Ablated Tissue

US 11,559,192 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Sep 22, 2032 · High confidence

Filed May 21, 2020 as application 16/879,929 · Granted Jan 24, 2023
Base term plus 253 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2012 2032
Clock starts
Sep 22, 2012
Term ends
Sep 22, 2032
Granted
Jan 24, 2023
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
253
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 10,716,462, US 11,559,192.
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.
9
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 253 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 22, 2012, when applications 13/624,899 and 13/624,902, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed May 21, 2020)Sep 22, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+253 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 2, 2033High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,716,462, US 11,559,192)capped to Sep 22, 2032High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 22, 2032High confidence

This family

US 9,014,789In force
Jun 2033
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Application PCT/US2012/056771PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,084,611In force
Jul 2033
Jul 2033
US 10,736,512In force
May 2034
May 2034
US 10,076,238In force
Sep 2032
Sep 2032
US 10,716,462In force
Sep 2032
Sep 2032
US 11,559,192this patent
Sep 2032
Sep 2032
US 12,075,980In force
no later than Sep 2032
no later than Sep 2032
8 of 9 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
Sep 25, 2020
Reel 53891, frame 326
Kay, Matthew W.; Mercader, Marco A.; Sarvazyan, NarineThe George Washington UniversityAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 25, 2020
Reel 53891, frame 434
Amirana, Omar; Armstrong, Kenneth C.; Ransbury, Terrance J.Luxcath, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 25, 2020
Reel 53891, frame 518
Luxcath, LLC460MEDICAL, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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