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Drill Guides and Inserters for Bone Plates Having Hook Members

US 11,490,906 In force
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Term ends Jul 11, 2035 · High confidence

Held by Trimed, Inc.
Filed May 7, 2020 as application 16/869,272 · Granted Nov 8, 2022
Base term plus 247 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2035
Clock starts
Nov 6, 2014
Term ends
Jul 11, 2035
Granted
Nov 8, 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
247
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 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 runs 247 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 6, 2014, when application 14/534,613, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 7, 2020)Nov 6, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+247 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 11, 2035High 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 orderJul 11, 2035High confidence

This family

Application 61/901,964Provisional application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 14/534,613Abandoned
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Application 62/848,018Pending
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US 11,490,906this patent
Jul 2035
Jul 2035
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
May 8, 2020
Reel 52609, frame 250
Medoff, Robert J.Tellman, Lars G.; Medoff, DavidAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 8, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
Medoff, Robert J.Tellman, Lars G.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 8, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
Medoff, Robert J.Medoff, DavidAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 20, 2020
Reel 52712, frame 748
Medoff, Robert J.; Tellman, Lars G.; Medoff, DavidTrimed IncorporatedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 3, 2024
Reel 66159, frame 89
Medoff, Robert J.; Tellman, Lars G.; Medoff, DavidTrimed Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 052712 Frame: 0748. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment .
Oct 16, 2024
Reel 68916, frame 799
Trimed Inc.Trimed, Inc.Change of Name

Sources

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