Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 24, 2025 (Trinity Capital Inc.).
Term ends Sep 16, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 16, 2036
Held by Cagent Vascular, Inc.
Filed Dec 27, 2018 as application 16/234,422 · Granted Sep 21, 2021
Base term plus 8 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Sep 16, 2016
Sep 16, 2016
Term ends
Sep 16, 2036
Sep 16, 2036
Granted
Sep 21, 2021
Sep 21, 2021
base term
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
8
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 10,166,374, US 10,689,154.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
8
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 8 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 3 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 Sep 16, 2016, when application 15/268,407, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 27, 2018) | Sep 16, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +8 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 24, 2036 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,166,374, US 10,689,154) | capped to Sep 16, 2036 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 16, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,166,374 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 11,123,527 | this patent Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 10,689,154 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 11,266,818 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 11,266,819 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 11,491,314 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 11,717,654 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 12,714,836 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
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 23, 2021 Reel 56644, frame 125 | Giasolli, Robert M.; Schneider, Peter; Johansson, Peter | Cagent Vascular, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 10, 2021 Reel 57159, frame 604 | Cagent Vascular, LLC | Cagent Vascular, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jan 24, 2025 Reel 70005, frame 936 | Cagent Vascular, Inc. | Trinity Capital Inc., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2036
Term ends Sep 16, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 8 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 10,166,374, US 10,689,154.
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2021 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
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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.