Term ended Oct 16, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 4, 2026
Filed Jul 1, 2013 as application 13/932,689 · Granted Jan 29, 2019
Base term plus 12 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 16, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Oct 4, 2006
Oct 4, 2006
Term ended
Oct 16, 2026
Oct 16, 2026
Granted
Jan 29, 2019
Jan 29, 2019
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
12
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,711,583, to Oct 16, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
3
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 12 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 4, 2006, when application 11/542,898, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 1, 2013) | Oct 4, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +12 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 16, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,711,583) | resolves to Oct 16, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 16, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,711,583 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| US 8,478,611 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 10,192,034 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
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, 2014 Reel 32313, frame 842 | Epstein, Robert; Anand, Tej; Anderson, Roger W.; Klepper, Kenneth; Proulx, Mark | Medco Health Solutions, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 25, 2018 Reel 46020, frame 604 | Medco Health Solutions, Inc. | Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 12 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,711,583, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2019 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.