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Articulated Instrumentation and Methods of Using the Same

US 11,471,145 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Also listed on Benvenue Medical, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Collateral for a security interest recorded May 31, 2024 (Perceptive Credit Holdings IV, LP).

Term ends Mar 15, 2039 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Sep 16, 2020 as application 17/023,312 · Granted Oct 18, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2019 2039
Clock starts
Mar 15, 2019
Term ends
Mar 15, 2039
Granted
Oct 18, 2022
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
4
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 15, 2019, when application PCT/US2019/022632, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 16, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Mar 15, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 15, 2039Medium confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2019/022632PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,471,145this patent
Mar 2039
Mar 2039
US 12,357,291In force
Mar 2039
Mar 2039
Application 19/254,879Pending
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Mar 3, 2021
Reel 55480, frame 6
Benvenue (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors), LLCSpinal Elements, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 3, 2021
Reel 55480, frame 516
Benvenue Medical, Inc.Benvenue (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors), LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 23, 2022
Reel 60875, frame 382
Pacheco-serrant, Helson; Taber, Justin; Lorang, Douglas M.; Schaller, Laurent B.; McHale, Patricia; Baldwin, Michael; Fessler, Richard G.; Ammerman, Joshua M.Benvenue Medical, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 31, 2024
Reel 67596, frame 295
Spinal Elements, Inc.; Custom Spine Acquisition, Inc.; Omni Acquisition Inc.Perceptive Credit Holdings IV, LPSecurity Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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