Also listed on Simplex Designs, LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Aug 30, 2039 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 5, 2039
Held by DePuy Ireland Unlimited Company
Filed Nov 1, 2021 as application 17/515,941 · Granted Feb 6, 2024
Base term plus 86 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2019
2039
Clock starts
Jun 5, 2019
Jun 5, 2019
Term ends
Aug 30, 2039
Aug 30, 2039
Granted
Feb 6, 2024
Feb 6, 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
86
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 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.
14
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 86 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Jun 5, 2019, when application 16/431,879, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 1, 2021) | Jun 5, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +86 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 30, 2039 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 30, 2039 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,191,651 | In force Oct 2039 | Oct 2039 |
| Application PCT/US2020/027692 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,938,032 | In force Jan 2041 | Jan 2041 |
| US 12,642,668 | In force Nov 2041 | Nov 2041 |
| US 11,890,204 | this patent Aug 2039 | Aug 2039 |
| Application PCT/US2022/012238 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 17/628,453 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2022/013102 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2022 Reel 58576, frame 84 | Rivera, Jose S., JR. | Rivera Surgical LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 10, 2022 Reel 58604, frame 112 | Rivera Surgical LLC | Simplex Designs, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 17, 2023 Reel 63667, frame 958 | Rivera Surgical LLC | Simplex Designs, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Assignee Address Previously Recorded at Reel: 058604 Frame: . Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Feb 7, 2025 Reel 70142, frame 549 | Simplex Designs, LLC | DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 26, 2025 Reel 70634, frame 990 | DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. | DePuy Ireland Unlimited Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2039
Term ends Aug 30, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 86 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
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