Lapsed Dec 1, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 30, 2029
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Auris Health, Inc.
Filed Sep 5, 2017 as application 15/695,562 · Granted Dec 1, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 392 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 1, 2024
2009
2030
Clock starts
Oct 30, 2009
Oct 30, 2009
No longer in force
Dec 1, 2024
Dec 1, 2024
Granted
Dec 1, 2020
Dec 1, 2020
Term would have run to
Nov 26, 2030
Nov 26, 2030
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
392
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 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.
4
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 Nov 26, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 392 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 Oct 30, 2009, when application 12/609,705, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 5, 2017) | Oct 30, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +392 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 26, 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 | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 1, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 1, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,192,789 | In force Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| Application 14/922,010 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,850,133 | this patent Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| Application 17/106,715 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2017 Reel 43530, frame 444 | Thapliyal, Hira V.; Gallup, David A.; Arenson, James W. | Vytronus, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 27, 2019 Reel 51147, frame 163 | Vytronus, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Dec 27, 2019 Reel 51435, frame 1 | Silicon Valley Bank | Vytronus, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| May 12, 2020 Reel 52642, frame 481 | Vytronus, Inc. | Auris Health, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 392 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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