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Method of Providing for the Minimization of Extravasation During Arthroscopic Surgery

US 11,730,350 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ended no later than Aug 29, 2026 · Medium confidence

Filed Oct 26, 2020 as application 17/080,680 · Granted Aug 22, 2023
Base term plus 375 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Ended no later than Aug 29, 2026
2005 2026
Clock starts
Aug 19, 2005
Ended no later than
Aug 29, 2026
Granted
Aug 22, 2023
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
375
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
8
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 375 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 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 Aug 19, 2005, when application 11/213,645, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 26, 2020)Aug 19, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+375 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 29, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo maintenance fee can end the term earlyterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Aug 29, 2026Medium confidence

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US 7,575,565In force
Aug 2027
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Application PCT/US2006/032281PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 7,993,299Term ended
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
Application 13/204,961Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 9,233,236Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
US 10,070,881Term ended
Oct 2026
Oct 2026
US 10,813,658Term ended
Mar 2026
Mar 2026
US 11,730,350this patent
no later than Aug 2026
no later than Aug 2026
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 26, 2020
Reel 54170, frame 331
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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