Term ends Jan 7, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 30, 2030
Held by Ethicon LLC
Filed Apr 17, 2020 as application 16/851,528 · Granted Jan 24, 2023
Base term plus 99 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2031
Clock starts
Sep 30, 2010
Sep 30, 2010
Term ends
Jan 7, 2031
Jan 7, 2031
Granted
Jan 24, 2023
Jan 24, 2023
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
99
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.
107
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 99 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 Sep 30, 2010, when application 12/894,377, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 17, 2020) | Sep 30, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +99 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 7, 2031 | 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 | Jan 7, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,393,514 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,864,009 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2011/053542 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 13/433,163 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,220,501 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 10,123,798 | Grace period ended Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
| US 9,301,753 | In force Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
| US 9,839,420 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
8 of 107 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2021 Reel 56601, frame 339 | Ethicon LLC | Cilag GmbH International | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 4, 2022 Reel 59493, frame 117 | Widenhouse, Tamara; Shelton, Frederick E., IV; Knight, Gary W.; Baxter, Chester O., III; Modi, Kreena R.; Schmid, Katherine J. | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 4, 2022 Reel 59593, frame 147 | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 4, 2022 Reel 59493, frame 292 | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLC | Ethicon LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2031
Term ends Jan 7, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 99 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
612
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2023 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.