Collateral for a security interest recorded May 29, 2020 (Solar Capital Ltd.).
Term ended Aug 9, 2024 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 9, 2024
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jul 7, 2025.
Held by Si-Bone Inc.
Filed Dec 4, 2008 as application 12/315,559 · Granted May 30, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Aug 9, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Aug 9, 2004
Aug 9, 2004
Term ended
Aug 9, 2024
Aug 9, 2024
Granted
May 30, 2017
May 30, 2017
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.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
38
Family applications on record here
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This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Aug 9, 2004, when application 10/914,629, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 4, 2008); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 9, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Jul 7, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 9, 2024 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 10/914,629 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,922,765 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| Application 11/653,504 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/981,009 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2008/000202 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,308,779 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 9,662,158 | this patent Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 8,202,305 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
8 of 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2010 Reel 24779, frame 870 | Reiley, Mark A | Si-Bone, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 22, 2017 Reel 41781, frame 632 | Reiley, Mark A. | Si-Bone Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Name of the Assignee Previously Recorded at Reel: 024779 Frame: 0870. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment . |
| Oct 27, 2017 Reel 43975, frame 669 | Si-Bone, Inc. | Biopharma Credit Investments IV Sub LP | Security Interest |
| May 29, 2020 Reel 52794, frame 423 | Biopharma Credit Investments IV Sub LP | Si-Bone, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral at Reel/Frame No. 043975/0669 |
| May 29, 2020 Reel 52795, frame 289 | Si-Bone, Inc. | Solar Capital Ltd., as Collateral Agent | Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Aug 12, 2021 Reel 57182, frame 104 | SLR Investment Corp. (F/K/A Solar Capital Ltd., as Collateral Agent) | Si-Bone, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
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