Term ends Aug 7, 2028 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by ICU Medical, Inc.

Filed Jul 18, 2011 as application 13/185,358 · Granted Dec 2, 2014

Base term plus 111 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Aug 7, 2028

2008 2028

Clock starts
Apr 18, 2008

Term ends
Aug 7, 2028

Granted
Dec 2, 2014

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

111

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.

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 111 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 Apr 18, 2008, when application 12/106,196, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 18, 2011)	Apr 18, 2028	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+111 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 7, 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 7, 2028	High confidence

This family

US 8,105,286	In force Dec 2030	Dec 2030
US 8,900,192	this patent Aug 2028	Aug 2028
US 9,764,117	In force Jul 2028	Jul 2028
US 10,441,752	In force Jul 2028	Jul 2028
US 11,291,804	In force Sep 2028	Sep 2028
Application 16/246,490	Abandoned not computed	not computed
Application 16/738,316	Abandoned not computed	not computed
Application 16/738,310	Abandoned not computed	not computed

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
Nov 14, 2012 Reel 29294, frame 553	Access Scientific, Inc.	Newco Scientific, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 1, 2018 Reel 45965, frame 253	Anderson, Janelle; Bierman, Steven F.; Huang, Wei; Pluth, Richard A.	Access Scientific, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 4, 2018 Reel 46292, frame 558	Newco Scientific, LLC	Access Scientific, LLC	Change of Name
Jun 25, 2018 Reel 46420, frame 739	Access Scientific, LLC	Access Scientific, LLC	Change of Address
Jan 11, 2019 Reel 47970, frame 148	Access Scientific, LLC	Providien Endeavour Holdings, LLC	Security Interest
Jun 13, 2019 Reel 49463, frame 216	Access Scientific, Inc.	Newco Scientific, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 16, 2019 Reel 49769, frame 615	Bierman, Steven F.; Pluth, Richard A.	Access Scientific, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 22, 2019 Reel 49824, frame 876	Providien Endeavor Holdings, LLC	Access Scientific, LLC	Release of Security Interest
Jul 23, 2019 Reel 49834, frame 367	Access Scientific, LLC; Asspv, LLC	Fortress Credit Corp.	Security Interest
Dec 19, 2019 Reel 51335, frame 783	Access Scientific, LLC	Asspv, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 12, 2020 Reel 52639, frame 577	Fortress Credit Corp.	Access Scientific, LLC; Asspv, LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 12, 2020 reel/frame not recorded	Fortress Credit Corp.	Access Scientific, LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 12, 2020 reel/frame not recorded	Fortress Credit Corp.	Asspv, LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 13, 2020 Reel 52656, frame 817	Access Scientific, LLC; Asspv, LLC	Smiths Medical Asd, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 16, 2022 Reel 61179, frame 320	Smiths Medical Asd, Inc.	Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Collateral Agent	Security Agreement
Oct 2, 2024 Reel 69101, frame 767	Smiths Medical Asd, Inc.	ICU Medical, Inc.	Merger

Sources

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

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What's changing

Aug 2028

Term ends Aug 7, 2028. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 111 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

142

later US patents cite this one

That is top 5% 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.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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