Term ended Dec 23, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 10, 2021
Held by ResMed Pty Ltd.
Filed Dec 10, 2001 as application 10/360,757 · Granted Jun 28, 2005
Base term plus 378 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Dec 23, 2022
2001
2026
Clock starts
Dec 10, 2001
Dec 10, 2001
Term ended
Dec 23, 2022
Dec 23, 2022
Granted
Jun 28, 2005
Jun 28, 2005
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
378
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
323
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 378 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 10, 2001, when this application, 10/360,757, was filed | Dec 10, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +378 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 23, 2022 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 23, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,185,652 | Term ended Feb 2020 | Feb 2020 |
| US 7,089,939 | Term ended May 2020 | May 2020 |
| US 6,871,649 | Term ended no later than May 2020 | no later than May 2020 |
| US 6,910,483 | this patent Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 7,600,513 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| US 6,796,308 | Term ended no later than Mar 2019 | no later than Mar 2019 |
| US 6,557,556 | Term ended no later than Jan 2018 | no later than Jan 2018 |
| US 7,669,599 | Term ended no later than Apr 2020 | no later than Apr 2020 |
8 of 323 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2003 Reel 14112, frame 969 | Daly, Geoffrey Daniel; Virr, Alexander; Lea, Stephen Anthony; Martin, Dion Charles Chewe; Reed, Nicholas Jreome; Puckeridge, Larry; Fu, Timothy Tsun-fai | ResMed Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 29, 2003 Reel 14114, frame 429 | ResMed (R&D) Limited | ResMed Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 29, 2003 Reel 14115, frame 251 | Daly, Geoffrey Daniel; Virr, Alexander; Lea, Stephen Anthony; Martin, Dion Charles Chewe; Reed, Nicholas Jerome; Puckeridge, Larry; Fu, Timothy Tsun-fai | ResMed (R&D) Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 8, 2007 Reel 18898, frame 104 | ResMed Limited | ResMed Limited | Change of Assignee's Address |
| Apr 30, 2019 Reel 50005, frame 461 | ResMed Limited | ResMed Pty Ltd. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 378 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
226
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2005 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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