Term ended May 1, 2021 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 1, 2021
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Mar 7, 2022.
Filed Jan 14, 2005 as application 11/034,824 · Granted Feb 2, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended May 1, 2021
2001
2026
Clock starts
May 1, 2001
May 1, 2001
Term ended
May 1, 2021
May 1, 2021
Granted
Feb 2, 2010
Feb 2, 2010
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.
2 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.
19
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. 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 May 1, 2001, when application 09/845,162, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 14, 2005) | May 1, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Mar 7, 2022, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 1, 2021 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,422,579 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2020 | Sep 2020 |
| US 7,374,560 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 7,604,612 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Application 10/301,779 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,763,012 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2004/027405 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,654,978 | this patent May 2021 | May 2021 |
| US 8,221,348 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
8 of 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 2006 Reel 17205, frame 651 | Velocimed, Inc. | ST. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | Merger/Change of Name |
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Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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