Term ends Feb 28, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 8, 2039
Held by Stryker Corporation
Filed Aug 8, 2019 as application 16/536,185 · Granted Jan 24, 2023
Base term plus 204 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2019
2040
Clock starts
Aug 8, 2019
Aug 8, 2019
Term ends
Feb 28, 2040
Feb 28, 2040
Granted
Jan 24, 2023
Jan 24, 2023
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
204
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.
22
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 204 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 Aug 8, 2019, when this application, 16/536,185, was filed | Aug 8, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +204 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 28, 2040 | 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 | Feb 28, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,559,382 | this patent Feb 2040 | Feb 2040 |
| US 11,554,005 | In force Aug 2039 | Aug 2039 |
| US 11,642,209 | In force Aug 2039 | Aug 2039 |
| US 11,969,331 | In force Aug 2039 | Aug 2039 |
| US 11,986,382 | In force Aug 2039 | Aug 2039 |
| US 11,744,691 | In force Aug 2039 | Aug 2039 |
| US 11,969,332 | In force Aug 2039 | Aug 2039 |
| US 11,969,333 | In force Aug 2039 | Aug 2039 |
8 of 22 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 6, 2020 Reel 51742, frame 881 | Merritt, Ben; Macias, Jaqueline; Strauss, Brian Michael | Inari Medical, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 21, 2021 Reel 56318, frame 657 | Tu, Thomas M. | Inari Medical, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 19, 2022 Reel 61138, frame 581 | Merritt, Ben; Macias, Jacqueline; Strauss, Brian Michael | Inari Medical, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 29, 2026 Reel 75486, frame 805 | Inari Medical, Inc. | Stryker Corporation | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
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What's changing
Feb 2040
Term ends Feb 28, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 204 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
163
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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