Term ends Apr 6, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 1, 2028
Held by Covidien LP
Filed Mar 30, 2016 as application 15/084,851 · Granted Jun 22, 2021
Base term plus 187 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2029
Clock starts
Oct 1, 2008
Oct 1, 2008
Term ends
Apr 6, 2029
Apr 6, 2029
Granted
Jun 22, 2021
Jun 22, 2021
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
187
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 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.
10
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 187 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 1 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 Oct 1, 2008, when application 12/243,367, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 30, 2016) | Oct 1, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +187 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 6, 2029 | 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 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 6, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,186,128 | In force Aug 2031 | Aug 2031 |
| US 8,968,210 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| Application 13/029,593 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,332,973 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 9,782,565 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 9,913,630 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 10,076,316 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 11,039,816 | this patent Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2016 Reel 38136, frame 858 | McWeeney, John; Kelly, Michael | Beacon Endoscipic Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 27, 2016 Reel 38391, frame 410 | Beacon Endoscopic Engineering Corporation | Beacon Endoscopic LLC | Change of Name |
| Apr 27, 2016 Reel 38391, frame 539 | Beacon Endoscopic LLC | Covidien LP | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2029
Term ends Apr 6, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 187 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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