Term ended Jul 6, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 6, 2026
Held by Vascular Pathways, Inc.
Filed May 5, 2020 as application 16/867,349 · Granted Mar 12, 2024
Base term plus 372 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Jul 6, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jul 6, 2006
Jul 6, 2006
Term ended
Jul 6, 2026
Jul 6, 2026
Granted
Mar 12, 2024
Mar 12, 2024
base term
after the term ends
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
372
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 11,020,571.
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.
11
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 372 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 6, 2006, when application PCT/US2006/026671, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 5, 2020) | Jul 6, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +372 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 13, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,020,571) | capped to Jul 6, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 6, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,162,037 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| US 8,728,035 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 10,806,906 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 10,912,930 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 10,220,191 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 11,020,571 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 11,925,778 | this patent Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 11,577,054 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
8 of 11 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Note
The 372 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 11,020,571.
Citations
29
later US patents cite this one
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Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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