Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 8, 2026 (Royal Bank of Canada).

Surrendered on reissue Sep 27, 2016 · Low confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Surrendered on reissue Sep 27, 2016 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE46,165.

Held by Genewave

Filed Apr 14, 2005 as application 11/106,247 · Granted Apr 10, 2012

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1475 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Surrendered Sep 27, 2016

2005 2029

Clock starts
Apr 14, 2005

No longer in force
Sep 27, 2016

Granted
Apr 10, 2012

Term would have run to
Apr 28, 2029

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

1,475

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

Fees paid on this patent before its reissue. Those after fall due on the reissue, which carries the term on.

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 1475 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. Confidence: Low. 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 Apr 14, 2005, when this application, 11/106,247, was filed	Apr 14, 2025	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+1475 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Apr 28, 2029	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	No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"	no change	Low confidence
Reissue	US RE46,165 issued Sep 27, 2016, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252)	surrendered Sep 27, 2016	High confidence
Surrendered on reissue	The steps above, in order	Sep 27, 2016	Low confidence

This family

US 8,153,066	this patent Sep 2016	Sep 2016
US RE46,165	In force Nov 2027	Nov 2027

2 of 3 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 24, 2005 Reel 16272, frame 307	Weisbuch, Claude	Genewave	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 8, 2026 Reel 75462, frame 440	Biotheranostics, Inc.; Gen-Probe Incorporated; Gen-Probe Prodesse, Inc.; Cytyc Corporation; Suros Surgical Systems, Inc.; Gynesonics, Inc.; Bolder Surgical, LLC; Faxitron Bioptics, LLC; Health Beacons, Inc.; Hologic, Inc.	Royal Bank of Canada, as Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Apr 8, 2026 Reel 75926, frame 339	Biotheranostics, Inc.; Gen-Probe Incorporated; Gen-Probe Prodesse, Inc.; Cytyc Corporation; Suros Surgical Systems, Inc.; Gynesonics, Inc.; Bolder Surgical, LLC; Faxitron Bioptics, LLC; Health Beacons, Inc.; Hologic, Inc.	Citibank, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Security Interest

Sources

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Note

The 1475 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

113

later US patents cite this one

That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

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