Lapsed Apr 29, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Invuity, Inc.

Filed Feb 1, 2011 as application 13/019,198 · Granted Apr 29, 2014

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 374 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Apr 29, 2026

2006 2027

Clock starts
Apr 3, 2006

No longer in force
Apr 29, 2026

Granted
Apr 29, 2014

Term would have run to
Apr 12, 2027

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know

374

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

Unresolved

Terminal disclaimer

On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.

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.

Family applications on record here

Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Apr 12, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 374 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. Confidence: Medium. 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 3, 2006, when application 11/397,446, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 1, 2011)	Apr 3, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+374 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Apr 12, 2027	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved	no cap applied, and none guessed	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Apr 29, 2026	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Apr 29, 2026	Medium confidence

This family

US 7,510,524	Term ended Apr 2026	Apr 2026
Application PCT/US2006/013029	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 7,901,353	In force Dec 2028	Dec 2028
US 9,005,115	In force May 2029	May 2029
US 8,162,824	Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2024	Apr 2024
US 8,708,896	this patent Apr 2026	Apr 2026
US 9,072,455	Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023	Jul 2023
US 9,504,373	Term ended Jul 2026	Jul 2026

8 of 15 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
Mar 14, 2011 Reel 25950, frame 338	Vayser, Alex; Trauner, Kenneth C.; Gasson, Jonathan G.; Grey, Thomas L.	Spotlight Surgical, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 21, 2013 Reel 29854, frame 244	Vayser, Alex; Trauner, Kenneth B.; Gasson, Jonathan G.; Grey, Thomas L.	Spotlight Surgical, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Name of Inventor Kenneth C. Trauner on the Assignment Previously Recorded on March 14, 2011 Previously Recorded on Reel 025950 Frame 0338. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correct Name of the Inventor Is Kenneth B. Trauner.
Feb 21, 2013 Reel 29854, frame 255	Spotlight Surgical, Inc.	Invuity, Inc.	Change of Name
Feb 28, 2014 Reel 32372, frame 240	Invuity, Inc.	Healthcare Royalty Partners II, L.P.	Security Agreement
Jun 3, 2015 Reel 35819, frame 943	Invuity, Inc.	Invuity, Inc.	Merger
Mar 17, 2017 Reel 42035, frame 801	Healthcare Royalty Partners II, L.P.	Invuity, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Mar 21, 2017 Reel 42052, frame 834	Invuity, Inc.	Midcap Financial Trust, As Agent	Security Interest (Revolving Loan)
Mar 21, 2017 Reel 42053, frame 284	Invuity, Inc.	Midcap Financial Trust, As Agent	Security Interest (TERM Loan)
Oct 23, 2018 Reel 47719, frame 34	Midcap Financial Trust, As Agent	Invuity, Inc.	Release of Security Interest

Sources

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What's changing

Note

A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed

Note

The 374 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Open question

A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Apr 29, 2026. We will not guess the cap.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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