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 Mar 14, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 7, 2037
Held by Medtronic Minimed, Inc.
Filed Dec 7, 2017 as application 15/835,361 · Granted Sep 29, 2020
Base term plus 97 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2038
Clock starts
Dec 7, 2017
Dec 7, 2017
Term ends
Mar 14, 2038
Mar 14, 2038
Granted
Sep 29, 2020
Sep 29, 2020
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
97
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 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 runs 97 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 7, 2017, when this application, 15/835,361, was filed | Dec 7, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +97 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 14, 2038 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 14, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,373,716 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 10,102,342 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 10,790,054 | this patent 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, 2018 Reel 45051, frame 884 | Vleugels, Katelijn; Marianetti, Ronald, II | Klue, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| 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 |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2038
Term ends Mar 14, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 97 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
22
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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