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Control Handle with Device Advancing Mechanism

US 10,238,838 In force
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Term ends Sep 27, 2027 · High confidence

Filed Jan 17, 2017 as application 15/408,361 · Granted Mar 26, 2019
Base term plus 1 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2007 2027
Clock starts
Sep 27, 2007
Term ends
Sep 27, 2027
Granted
Mar 26, 2019
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
1
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,935,082, US 8,562,568, US 9,220,531, US 9,545,500.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
7
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 1 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 2 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 27, 2007, when application 11/863,149, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 17, 2017)Sep 27, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 28, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,935,082, US 8,562,568, US 9,220,531, US 9,545,500)capped to Sep 27, 2027High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 27, 2027High confidence

This family

US 7,935,082In force
May 2028
May 2028
US 8,562,568In force
Dec 2027
Dec 2027
US 9,220,531In force
Oct 2027
Oct 2027
US 9,545,500In force
Sep 2027
Sep 2027
US 10,238,838this patent
Sep 2027
Sep 2027
US 11,285,295In force
Aug 2028
Aug 2028
US 11,951,264In force
Sep 2027
Sep 2027
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jan 19, 2017
Reel 41019, frame 858
Datta, Keshava; Schultz, Jeffrey WilliamBiosense Webster, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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