Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 16, 2026 (Citibank, N.A.).
Term ends Mar 14, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 7, 2037
Held by Medtronic Minimed, Inc.
Filed Aug 20, 2020 as application 16/999,005 · Granted Aug 15, 2023
Base term plus 449 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2017
2038
Clock starts
Dec 7, 2017
Dec 7, 2017
Term ends
Mar 14, 2038
Mar 14, 2038
Granted
Aug 15, 2023
Aug 15, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
449
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,790,054.
0 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.
12
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 449 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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 Dec 7, 2017, when application 15/835,361, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 20, 2020) | Dec 7, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +449 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 1, 2039 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,790,054) | capped to Mar 14, 2038 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 14, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,373,716 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 10,102,342 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 10,790,054 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| Application 16/261,559 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,069,443 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 11,728,024 | this patent Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| US 11,929,167 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 12,217,194 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2021 Reel 57767, frame 812 | Vleugels, Katelijn; Marianetti, Ronald, II | Klue, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 12, 2021 Reel 57767, frame 899 | Klue, Inc. | Medtronic Minimed, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 16, 2026 Reel 74394, frame 237 | Medtronic Minimed, Inc.; Companion Medical, Inc. | Citibank, N.a. | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Mar 2038
Term ends Mar 14, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 449 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,790,054.
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
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