Term ends Mar 2, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 8, 2031
Held by ICU Medical, Inc.
Filed Oct 28, 2020 as application 17/082,566 · Granted Sep 26, 2023
Base term plus 388 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Feb 8, 2011
Feb 8, 2011
Term ends
Mar 2, 2032
Mar 2, 2032
Granted
Sep 26, 2023
Sep 26, 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
388
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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 388 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 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 Feb 8, 2011, when application PCT/US2011/024097, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 28, 2020) | Feb 8, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +388 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 2, 2032 | 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 | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 2, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2011/024097 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,956,327 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 10,136,916 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 10,849,651 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 11,766,277 | this patent Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 2020 Reel 54327, frame 963 | Bierman, Steven F.; Pluth, Richard A. | Access Scientific, LLC. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 11, 2020 Reel 54334, frame 672 | Access Scientific, LLC. | Asspv, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 11, 2020 Reel 54334, frame 847 | Access Scientific, LLC.; Asspv, LLC. | Smiths Medicals Asd, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 9, 2020 Reel 54659, frame 968 | Access Scientific, LLC; Asspv, LLC | Smiths Medical Asd, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 054334 Frame: 0847. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment . |
| Aug 16, 2022 Reel 61179, frame 320 | Smiths Medical Asd, Inc. | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Oct 2, 2024 Reel 69101, frame 767 | Smiths Medical Asd, Inc. | ICU Medical, Inc. | Merger |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2032
Term ends Mar 2, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 388 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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.