Also listed on Klue, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 16, 2026 (Citibank, N.A.).
Term ends Jan 30, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 30, 2037
Held by Medtronic Minimed, Inc.
Filed Feb 27, 2017 as application 15/443,830 · Granted Oct 16, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Jan 30, 2017
Jan 30, 2017
Term ends
Jan 30, 2037
Jan 30, 2037
Granted
Oct 16, 2018
Oct 16, 2018
base term
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.
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.
12
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Jan 30, 2017, when application 15/419,996, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 27, 2017) | Jan 30, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 30, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,373,716 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 10,102,342 | this patent Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 10,790,054 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| Application 16/261,559 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,069,443 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 11,728,024 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| US 11,929,167 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 12,217,194 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 2017 Reel 41387, frame 282 | Vleugels, Katelijn; Marianetti Ii, Ronald | Savor Labs, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 9, 2017 Reel 44415, frame 942 | Savor Labs, Inc. | Klue, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 10, 2021 Reel 55555, frame 417 | Klue, Inc. | Medtronic Minimed, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 16, 2026 Reel 74394, frame 237 | Medtronic Minimed, Inc.; Companion Medical, Inc. | Citibank, N.a. | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Jan 2037
Term ends Jan 30, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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