Collateral for a security interest recorded Nov 25, 2020 (Midcap Funding IV Trust).
Term ends Jan 1, 2027 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 26, 2026
Held by Sight Sciences, Inc.
Filed Jul 30, 2019 as application 16/526,832 · Granted Jan 9, 2024
Base term plus 850 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2006
2027
Clock starts
Jun 26, 2006
Jun 26, 2006
Term ends
Jan 1, 2027
Jan 1, 2027
Granted
Jan 9, 2024
Jan 9, 2024
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
850
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 10,398,597.
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.
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 850 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. No maintenance fee can end this term early. Confidence: Low. 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 Jun 26, 2006, when application 11/475,523, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 30, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 26, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +850 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 23, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,398,597) | capped to Jan 1, 2027 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 13445816, 12695053, 13445816, 12695053 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 1, 2027 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,909,789 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 8,287,482 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 9,370,443 | In force Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| US 9,486,361 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 10,314,742 | In force no later than May 2027 | no later than May 2027 |
| US 10,398,597 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 11,389,328 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 11,865,041 | this patent Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2019 Reel 50258, frame 918 | Badawi, David Y.; Badawi, Paul | Sight Sciences, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 25, 2020 Reel 54524, frame 8 | Sight Sciences, Inc. | Midcap Funding IV Trust, as Agent | Reaffirmed and Amended Security Interest (REVOLVING) |
| Nov 25, 2020 Reel 54524, frame 20 | Sight Sciences, Inc. | Midcap Financial Trust, As Agent | Reaffirmed and Amended Security Interest (TERM) |
| Jan 23, 2024 Reel 66364, frame 162 | Sight Sciences, Inc. | Hercules Capital, Inc., as Agent | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Jan 2027
Term ends Jan 1, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 850 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 10,398,597.
Citations
37
later US patents cite this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2024 in our data have been cited yet, so we show the count and do not rank on it.
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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.