Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 1, 2024 (Cerberus Business Finance Agency, LLC).

Lapsed Oct 6, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by LDR Medical, S.A.S.

Filed Jun 21, 2018 as application 16/014,069 · Granted Oct 6, 2020

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 184 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Oct 6, 2024

2018 2038

Clock starts
Jun 21, 2018

No longer in force
Oct 6, 2024

Granted
Oct 6, 2020

Term would have run to
Dec 22, 2038

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know

184

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

0 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.

Family applications on record here

Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Dec 22, 2038: its 20-year base term plus 184 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jun 21, 2018, when this application, 16/014,069, was filed	Jun 21, 2038	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+184 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Dec 22, 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	0 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Oct 6, 2024	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Oct 6, 2024	High confidence

This family

US 10,792,084	this patent Oct 2024	Oct 2024
US 11,559,344	In force Dec 2038	Dec 2038

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
Jul 20, 2018 Reel 46416, frame 944	Milor, Pierre; Ichelmann, Bruno; Flaquiere, Kevin	Zimmer Spine S.A.S.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 25, 2024 Reel 66893, frame 633	Zimmer Spine, S.a.s.	Ldr Medical, S.a.s.	Merger
Apr 1, 2024 Reel 66970, frame 806	Zimmer Biomet Spine, LLC; Ebi, LLC	Cerberus Business Finance Agency, LLC	Grant of a Security Interest -- Patents

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

What's changing

Note

The 184 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2020 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.

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