Term ends Dec 7, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 7, 2032
Held by Lumenis Be Ltd.
Filed Oct 8, 2019 as application 16/595,711 · Granted Jul 20, 2021
Base term plus 86 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Dec 7, 2012
Dec 7, 2012
Term ends
Dec 7, 2032
Dec 7, 2032
Granted
Jul 20, 2021
Jul 20, 2021
base term
fee events
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
86
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 10,085,814, US 10,426,564, US 10,478,264, US 9,333,370.
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.
9
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 86 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 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 Dec 7, 2012, when application 13/707,834, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 8, 2019) | Dec 7, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +86 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 3, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,085,814, US 10,426,564, US 10,478,264, US 9,333,370) | capped to Dec 7, 2032 | 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 | Dec 7, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,333,370 | In force Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| US 10,085,814 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 10,426,564 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| US 10,478,264 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| US 11,065,076 | this patent Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| Application 17/346,254 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 17/568,989 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/133,817 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2021 Reel 56523, frame 478 | Azoulay, Kfir | Lumenis Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 1, 2021 Reel 57979, frame 351 | Lumenis Ltd. | Lumenis Be Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Dec 2032
Term ends Dec 7, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 86 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 10,085,814, US 10,426,564, US 10,478,264, US 9,333,370.
Citations
13
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.