Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 8, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ends Aug 8, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 8, 2038
Held by Medshape, Inc.
Filed Sep 13, 2021 as application 17/472,956 · Granted Feb 27, 2024
Base term plus 107 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018
Term ends
Aug 8, 2038
Aug 8, 2038
Granted
Feb 27, 2024
Feb 27, 2024
base term
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
107
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 11,116,499.
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.
16
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 107 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Aug 8, 2018, when applications 16/058,638 and 29/659,375, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Sep 13, 2021) | Aug 8, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +107 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 23, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,116,499) | capped to Aug 8, 2038 | 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 8, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,307,156 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US D895,113 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 11,020,110 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US D957,636 | In force Jul 2037 | Jul 2037 |
| US 11,116,499 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 11,911,025 | In force no later than Oct 2038 | no later than Oct 2038 |
| US 11,911,026 | this patent Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US D1,009,269 | In force Dec 2038 | Dec 2038 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 2021 Reel 58154, frame 336 | Blair, Jeremy Webster; Kline, Courtney Lynne | Medshape, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 8, 2025 Reel 73888, frame 915 | Djo, LLC; Empi Inc.; Encore Medical, L.p.; Lima USA, Inc.; Litecure, LLC; Medshape, Inc.; Trilliant Surgical, LLC | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Supplemental Confirmatory Grant of Security Interest in United States Patents |
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What's changing
Aug 2038
Term ends Aug 8, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 107 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 11,116,499.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
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