Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 19, 2022 (Orbimed Royalty & Credit Opportunities IV, LP).
Term ends Aug 15, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 5, 2026
Held by Insmed Incorporated
Filed Dec 5, 2006 as application 11/634,343 · Granted Jul 24, 2012
Base term plus 619 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2028
Clock starts
Dec 5, 2006
Dec 5, 2006
Term ends
Aug 15, 2028
Aug 15, 2028
Granted
Jul 24, 2012
Jul 24, 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
619
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.
17
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 619 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 5, 2006, when this application, 11/634,343, was filed | Dec 5, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +619 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 15, 2028 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 15, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,226,975 | this patent Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| US 8,632,804 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,679,532 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,642,075 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,673,348 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,673,349 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| Application 14/080,922 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,402,845 | In force no later than Dec 2026 | no later than Dec 2026 |
8 of 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2007 Reel 19513, frame 513 | Weers, Jeff | Transave, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 1, 2010 Reel 24623, frame 834 | Weers, Jeff | Transave, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 15, 2012 Reel 28385, frame 357 | River Acquisition Co. | Transave, Inc. | Merger |
| Jun 15, 2012 Reel 28385, frame 433 | Transave, Inc. | Transave, LLC | Merger |
| Jun 15, 2012 Reel 28385, frame 474 | Transave, LLC | Insmed Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 1, 2016 Reel 39235, frame 465 | Transave, LLC | Insmed Incorporated | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Street Address Previously Recorded at Reel: 038947 Frame: 0075. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Oct 19, 2022 Reel 61727, frame 39 | Insmed Incorporated | Orbimed Royalty & Credit Opportunities IV, LP | Second Lien Patent Security Agreement |
| Oct 20, 2022 Reel 61735, frame 875 | Insmed Incorporated | Biopharma Credit PLC | Patent Security Agreement |
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.
What's changing
Aug 2028
Term ends Aug 15, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 619 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
136
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
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.