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Baroreflex Activation for Sedation and Sleep

US 8,224,437 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 31, 2022 (Innovatus Life Sciences Lending Fund I, LP).

Term ends Dec 10, 2026 · High confidence

Held by CVRX, Inc.
Filed Oct 3, 2008 as application 12/245,636 · Granted Jul 17, 2012
Base term plus 781 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2004 2026
Clock starts
Oct 20, 2004
Term ends
Dec 10, 2026
Granted
Jul 17, 2012
base term patent term adjustment 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
781
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.
6
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 781 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Oct 20, 2004, when application 10/970,829, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 3, 2008)Oct 20, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+781 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 10, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 10, 2026High confidence

This family

US 7,480,532Term ended
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
Application 11/933,294Abandoned
not computed
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US 8,478,414Term ended
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
US 8,224,437this patent
Dec 2026
Dec 2026
US 8,560,076Term ended
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
US 8,755,907Term ended
Oct 2024
Oct 2024
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
Apr 27, 2010
Reel 24292, frame 890
Kieval, Robert S.; Rossing, Martin A.CVRX, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 31, 2022
Reel 61824, frame 238
CVRX, Inc.Innovatus Life Sciences Lending Fund I, LPSecurity Interest

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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