Term ends Dec 23, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 31, 2035
Held by Curonix LLC
Filed Dec 31, 2015 as application 14/986,324 · Granted Aug 28, 2018
Base term plus 358 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2036
Clock starts
Dec 31, 2015
Dec 31, 2015
Term ends
Dec 23, 2036
Dec 23, 2036
Granted
Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018
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
358
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.
5
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 358 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 Dec 31, 2015, when this application, 14/986,324, was filed | Dec 31, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +358 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 23, 2036 | 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 23, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,058,705 | this patent Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| US 10,426,960 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 11,541,238 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 11,938,321 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 12,397,161 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 2016 Reel 37617, frame 1 | Andresen, Chad David; Lebaron, Richard; Perryman, Laura Tyler | Micron Devices LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 8, 2018 Reel 47448, frame 808 | Micron Devices LLC | Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 12, 2020 Reel 51488, frame 316 | Micron Devices LLC | Micron Medical LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 24, 2020 Reel 51610, frame 501 | Micron Medical LLC | Micron Devices LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 8, 2020 Reel 52382, frame 53 | Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | Correction by Declaration of Incorrect Patents Recorded at 051488/0316 |
| Apr 8, 2020 Reel 52398, frame 109 | Stimwave Technologies Inc. | Stimwave Technologies Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Conveying and Receiving Party Data Previously Recorded at Reel: 051610 Frame: 0501. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Apr 6, 2023 Reel 63269, frame 506 | Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | SWT SPV LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 6, 2023 Reel 63283, frame 176 | SWT SPV LLC | Curonix LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2036
Term ends Dec 23, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 358 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
36
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2018 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
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