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Automated Therapy System and Method

US 8,480,648 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 9, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Jan 19, 2012 as application 13/354,210 · Granted Jul 9, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jul 9, 2025
2008 2028
Clock starts
Apr 4, 2008
No longer in force
Jul 9, 2025
Granted
Jul 9, 2013
Term would have run to
Apr 4, 2028
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
7
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Apr 4, 2028: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 4, 2008, when application 12/098,365, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 19, 2012)Apr 4, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 9, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 9, 2025High confidence

This family

US 8,100,880Lapsed on the fee record
Jan 2024
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US 8,480,648this patent
Jul 2025
Jul 2025
Application 13/937,102Abandoned
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Application 15/009,687Abandoned
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Application 15/013,813Abandoned
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US 11,800,992In force
Apr 2028
Apr 2028
Application 18/472,625Pending
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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 9, 2012
Reel 28015, frame 545
Burnett, Daniel Rogers; Hall, Gregory; Hermanson, Christopher; Rajguru, AmitTheranova, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 9, 2012
Reel 28015, frame 563
Theranova, LLCVelomedix, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 3, 2015
Reel 35551, frame 729
Velomedix, Inc.Theranova, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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