Term ends Dec 14, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 16, 2024
Held by Senorx, Inc.
Filed Sep 21, 2018 as application 16/138,248 · Granted Feb 15, 2022
Base term plus 728 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2026
Clock starts
Dec 16, 2004
Dec 16, 2004
Term ends
Dec 14, 2026
Dec 14, 2026
Granted
Feb 15, 2022
Feb 15, 2022
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
728
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.
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 728 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 Dec 16, 2004, when application 11/014,413, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 21, 2018) | Dec 16, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +728 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 14, 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 14, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,408,592 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| Application PCT/US2004/043021 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,360,990 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 8,343,071 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application 12/322,749 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2010/022993 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,105,125 | In force Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| US 11,246,574 | this patent Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2022 Reel 58567, frame 188 | Shabaz, Martin V.; Quick, Richard L.; Louw, Frank R.; Lubock, Paul; Safabash, Jason H. | Senorx, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 14, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 728 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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