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Sensory Prosthetic for Improved Balance Control

US 10,178,970 Term ended
OverviewSources & methods

Term ended Oct 10, 2023 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Rxfunction, Inc.
Filed Feb 24, 2016 as application 15/052,349 · Granted Jan 15, 2019
Base term plus 179 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Oct 10, 2023
2003 2026
Clock starts
Apr 14, 2003
Term ended
Oct 10, 2023
Granted
Jan 15, 2019
base term patent term adjustment 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
179
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.

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 filingClock starts Apr 14, 2003, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Feb 24, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Apr 14, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+179 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 10, 2023High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 1 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 10, 2023Medium confidence

Sources

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Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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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