Lapsed Sep 20, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 25, 2029
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by KCI Licensing, Inc.
Filed Nov 30, 2018 as application 16/206,381 · Granted Sep 20, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 379 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 20, 2026
2009
2030
Clock starts
Nov 25, 2009
Nov 25, 2009
No longer in force
Sep 20, 2026
Sep 20, 2026
Granted
Sep 20, 2022
Sep 20, 2022
Term would have run to
Dec 9, 2030
Dec 9, 2030
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
379
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
5
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Dec 9, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 379 days of term adjustment for 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 Nov 25, 2009, when application 12/626,426, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 30, 2018) | Nov 25, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +379 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 9, 2030 | 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 | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 20, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 20, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 12/626,426 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/646,856 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,182,947 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
| US 11,446,184 | this patent Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| Application 17/472,089 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2021 Reel 57627, frame 900 | Hu, Dean; Fong, Kenton; Pinto, Moshe; Hui, Philip; Wu, Kenneth; McGreevy, Craig; Anderson, Evan | Spiracur Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 28, 2021 Reel 57628, frame 117 | Spiracur Inc. | KCI Licensing, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 379 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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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