Term ended May 24, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 24, 2026
Held by Inspiremd, Ltd.
Filed Aug 27, 2018 as application 16/113,752 · Granted Mar 2, 2021
Base term plus 209 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended May 24, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
May 24, 2006
May 24, 2006
Term ended
May 24, 2026
May 24, 2026
Granted
Mar 2, 2021
Mar 2, 2021
base term
after the term ends
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
209
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 10,058,440, US 10,070,977.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
11
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 209 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 May 24, 2006, when application PCT/IB2006/051874, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 27, 2018) | May 24, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +209 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 19, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,058,440, US 10,070,977) | capped to May 24, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 24, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,043,323 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
| US 8,961,586 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 10,070,977 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| Application 12/445,968 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,132,261 | In force no later than Jul 2029 | no later than Jul 2029 |
| US 10,058,440 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| Application 14/705,871 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,932,926 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2018 Reel 46718, frame 821 | Bar, Eli; Holzer, Zeev Asher; Paz, Ofir | Inspiremd, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 17, 2023 Reel 64616, frame 911 | Bar, Eli; Holzer, Zeev Asher; Paz, Ofir | Inspire M.D Ltd. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Error in Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 046718 Frame: 0821. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
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Note
The 209 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,058,440, US 10,070,977.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
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