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Baroreflex Activation for Pain Control, Sedation and Sleep

US 8,478,414 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 31, 2022 (Innovatus Life Sciences Lending Fund I, LP).

Term ended Nov 18, 2025 · High confidence

Held by CVRX, Inc.
Filed Apr 30, 2008 as application 12/112,899 · Granted Jul 2, 2013
Base term plus 981 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Nov 18, 2025
2004 2026
Clock starts
Oct 20, 2004
Term ended
Nov 18, 2025
Granted
Jul 2, 2013
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
981
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 7,480,532.
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 981 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: 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 Apr 30, 2008)Oct 20, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+981 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 28, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,480,532)capped to Nov 18, 2025High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 18, 2025High confidence

This family

US 7,480,532Term ended
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
Application 11/933,294Abandoned
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US 8,478,414this patent
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
US 8,224,437In force
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 14, 2010
Reel 24231, frame 866
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

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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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