Term ended Jul 1, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 30, 2025
Held by Biosense Webster, Inc.
Filed Mar 18, 2019 as application 16/357,230 · Granted Jan 4, 2022
Base term plus 183 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 1, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2005
Dec 30, 2005
Term ended
Jul 1, 2026
Jul 1, 2026
Granted
Jan 4, 2022
Jan 4, 2022
base term
patent term adjustment
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
183
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.
7
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 183 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Dec 30, 2005, when application 11/322,591, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 18, 2019) | Dec 30, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +183 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 1, 2026 | 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 1, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,879,029 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| US 8,603,085 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 9,226,793 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,510,893 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,814,524 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,231,780 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 11,213,346 | this patent Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
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 19, 2019 Reel 48639, frame 512 | Jimenez, Eduardo | Biosense Webster, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 183 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
29
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2022 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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