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Method and Apparatus for Tracking of Food Intake and Other Behaviors and Providing Relevant Feedback

US 11,929,167 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 16, 2026 (Citibank, N.A.).

Term ends May 21, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Jul 19, 2021 as application 17/379,841 · Granted Mar 12, 2024
Base term plus 179 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
Jan 30, 2017
Term ends
May 21, 2037
Granted
Mar 12, 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
179
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 11,069,443.
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.
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 179 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 30, 2017, when application 15/419,996, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 19, 2021)Jan 30, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+179 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 28, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,069,443)capped to May 21, 2037High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 21, 2037High confidence

This family

US 10,373,716In force
May 2037
May 2037
US 10,102,342In force
Jan 2037
Jan 2037
US 10,790,054In force
Mar 2038
Mar 2038
Application 16/261,559Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 11,069,443In force
May 2037
May 2037
US 11,728,024In force
Mar 2038
Mar 2038
US 11,929,167this patent
May 2037
May 2037
US 12,217,194In force
Jan 2037
Jan 2037
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 12, 2021
Reel 57770, frame 765
Vleugels, KatelijnSavor Labs, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 12, 2021
Reel 57770, frame 804
Marianetti, Ronald, IISavor Labs, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 12, 2021
Reel 57770, frame 918
Klue, Inc.Medtronic Minimed, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 12, 2021
Reel 57788, frame 56
Savor Labs, Inc.Klue, Inc.Change of Name
Jan 16, 2026
Reel 74394, frame 237
Medtronic Minimed, Inc.; Companion Medical, Inc.Citibank, N.a.Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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