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Arthroscopic Flexible Portal Cannula Device and Delivery System

US 11,596,440 In force
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Term ends Jan 29, 2035 · Medium confidence

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

Filed Oct 27, 2020 as application 17/081,259 · Granted Mar 7, 2023
Base term plus 325 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2035
Clock starts
Mar 10, 2014
Term ends
Jan 29, 2035
Granted
Mar 7, 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
325
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 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.

This patent's term runs 325 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 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 10, 2014, when application 14/203,445, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 27, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Mar 10, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+325 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 29, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 29, 2035Medium confidence

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US 9,675,379In force
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US 11,596,440this patent
Jan 2035
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US 12,121,262In force
Apr 2034
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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
Oct 27, 2020
Reel 54181, frame 123
Kucklick, Theodore R.Cannuflow, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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