Term ends Dec 17, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 21, 2035
Held by EndoChoice, Inc.
Filed Dec 2, 2021 as application 17/540,670 · Granted Jan 30, 2024
Base term plus 149 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015
Term ends
Dec 17, 2035
Dec 17, 2035
Granted
Jan 30, 2024
Jan 30, 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
149
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 149 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 Jul 21, 2015, when application 14/805,234, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 2, 2021) | Jul 21, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +149 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 17, 2035 | 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 | Dec 17, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,258,222 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 11,229,348 | In force Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
| US 11,883,004 | this patent Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 12,495,959 | In force Oct 2035 | Oct 2035 |
| Application 19/392,741 | Pending not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2035
Term ends Dec 17, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 149 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
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