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Medical Device for Analyte Monitoring and Drug Delivery

US 7,291,497 Term ended
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Term ended Sep 10, 2024 · High confidence

Filed Sep 10, 2004 as application 10/937,872 · Granted Nov 6, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Sep 10, 2024
2004 2026
Clock starts
Sep 10, 2004
Term ended
Sep 10, 2024
Granted
Nov 6, 2007
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
31
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. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 10, 2004, when this application, 10/937,872, was filedSep 10, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 10, 2024High confidence

This family

US 7,291,497this patent
Sep 2024
Sep 2024
US 8,101,402Term ended
May 2025
May 2025
US 8,202,697Term ended
no later than Nov 2024
no later than Nov 2024
US 8,679,407In force
Apr 2027
Apr 2027
US 8,841,076Term ended
Mar 2026
Mar 2026
US 7,888,125In force
Jul 2029
Jul 2029
US 7,635,594Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
Application 11/389,410Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 31 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
Dec 14, 2005
Reel 17355, frame 664
Holmes, Elizabeth; Roy, Shaunak; Howard, John; Wang, ChengwangTheranos, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 12, 2017
Reel 44838, frame 909
Theranos Inc.Theranos IP Company, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 12, 2017
Reel 44839, frame 568
Theranos IP Company, LLCFortress Credit Corp.Security Interest
Jan 16, 2018
Reel 45101, frame 315
Theranos, Inc.Theranos IP Company, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 7, 2020
Reel 52329, frame 716
Theranos IP Company LLCLabrador Diagnostics LLCChange of Name

Sources

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

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