Also listed on Beacon Endoscopic LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 10, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 1, 2028
Held by Covidien LP
Filed Nov 16, 2011 as application 13/297,766 · Granted May 10, 2016
Base term plus 1165 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2031
Clock starts
Oct 1, 2008
Oct 1, 2008
Term ends
Dec 10, 2031
Dec 10, 2031
Granted
May 10, 2016
May 10, 2016
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
1,165
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
10
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 1165 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Oct 1, 2008, when application 12/243,367, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 16, 2011) | Oct 1, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1165 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 10, 2031 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 10, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,186,128 | In force Aug 2031 | Aug 2031 |
| US 8,968,210 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| Application 13/029,593 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,332,973 | this patent Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 9,782,565 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 9,913,630 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 10,076,316 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 11,039,816 | In force Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 2011 Reel 27330, frame 242 | McWeeney, John; Kelly, Micheal | Beacon Endoscopic Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 8, 2014 Reel 32629, frame 264 | Beacon Endoscopic Corporation | Beacon Endoscopic LLC | Merger |
| Apr 11, 2014 Reel 32659, frame 382 | Beacon Endoscopic LLC | Covidien LP | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2031
Term ends Dec 10, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1165 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
66
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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