Term ends Oct 8, 2030 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 22, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Inmode Ltd.
Filed Oct 6, 2009 as application 12/573,923 · Granted Oct 13, 2020
Base term plus 1751 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2030
Clock starts
Dec 22, 2005
Dec 22, 2005
Term ends
Oct 8, 2030
Oct 8, 2030
Granted
Oct 13, 2020
Oct 13, 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
1,751
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 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.
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 1751 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 22, 2005, when application 11/315,841, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 6, 2009); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Dec 22, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1751 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 8, 2030 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 8, 2030 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,799,285 | this patent Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
1 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2009 Reel 23329, frame 424 | Mulholland, R. Stephen | Spamedica International SRL | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2010 Reel 23915, frame 776 | Spamedica International SRL | Invasix Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 31, 2020 Reel 53640, frame 76 | Spamedica International SRL | Inmode Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2030
Term ends Oct 8, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1751 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
86
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.