Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 6, 2021 (Midcap Financial Trust).
Term ended Nov 3, 2022 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 18, 2022
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Strata Skin Sciences, Inc.
Filed May 8, 2006 as application 11/429,695 · Granted Feb 22, 2011
Base term plus 445 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Nov 3, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Oct 18, 2002
Oct 18, 2002
Term ended
Nov 3, 2022
Nov 3, 2022
Granted
Feb 22, 2011
Feb 22, 2011
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
445
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 7,144,248.
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.
46
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 445 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 Oct 18, 2002, when application 10/274,838, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 8, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 18, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +445 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 6, 2024 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,144,248) | capped to Nov 3, 2022 | 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 | Nov 3, 2022 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,144,248 | Term ended Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 7,257,144 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 7,276,059 | Term ended Oct 2020 | Oct 2020 |
| US 7,891,361 | this patent Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 7,886,749 | Term ended Feb 2021 | Feb 2021 |
| US 7,848,378 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 7,813,586 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 7,894,651 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
8 of 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2010 Reel 24244, frame 480 | Photomedex, Inc.; Procyte Corporation; Photo Therapeutics, Inc.; SLT Technology, Inc. | Perseus Partners Vii, L.p. | Security Agreement |
| Dec 13, 2011 Reel 27374, frame 134 | Perseus Partners Vii, L.p. | Photomedex, Inc.; Procyte Corporation; Photo Therapeutics, Inc.; SLT Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 13, 2011 reel/frame not recorded | Perseus Partners Vii, L.p. | Photomedex, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 13, 2011 reel/frame not recorded | Perseus Partners Vii, L.p. | Procyte Corporation | Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 13, 2011 reel/frame not recorded | Perseus Partners Vii, L.p. | Photo Therapeutics, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 13, 2011 reel/frame not recorded | Perseus Partners Vii, L.p. | SLT Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Jan 19, 2012 Reel 27563, frame 723 | Irwin, Dean S. | Photomedex | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 14, 2014 Reel 32892, frame 586 | Photomedex, Inc.; Gatorade Acquisition Corp.; Radiancy, Inc.; Photomedex Technology, Inc.; Lumiere, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Jun 23, 2015 Reel 36007, frame 222 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Photomedex, Inc.; Gatorade Acquisition Corp.; Radiancy, Inc.; Photomedex Technology, Inc.; Lumiere, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 23, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Photomedex, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 23, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Gatorade Acquisition Corp. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 23, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Radiancy, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 23, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Photomedex Technology, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 23, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Lumiere, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 3, 2015 Reel 36236, frame 201 | Photomedex, Inc. | Photomedex Technology, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Aug 3, 2015 Reel 36236, frame 243 | Photomedex Technology, Inc. | Mela Sciences, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 31, 2015 Reel 37391, frame 451 | Mela Sciences, Inc. | Midcap Financial Trust, As Agent | Security Interest |
| May 30, 2018 Reel 46264, frame 285 | Mela Sciences, Inc. | Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jan 20, 2020 Reel 51558, frame 510 | Midcap Financial Trust | Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 6, 2021 Reel 57717, frame 796 | Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | Midcap Financial Trust | Security Interest |
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Note
The 445 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,144,248.
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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