Term ends Jul 19, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 16, 2034
Held by Spinal Elements, Inc.
Filed Apr 2, 2020 as application 16/838,860 · Granted Mar 26, 2024
Base term plus 368 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014
Term ends
Jul 19, 2035
Jul 19, 2035
Granted
Mar 26, 2024
Mar 26, 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
368
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.
4
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 368 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 16, 2014, when application 14/333,336, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 2, 2020) | Jul 16, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +368 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 19, 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 | Jul 19, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,668,876 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| US 10,034,765 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 10,646,351 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 11,938,036 | this patent Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2024 Reel 67596, frame 295 | Spinal Elements, Inc.; Custom Spine Acquisition, Inc.; Omni Acquisition Inc. | Perceptive Credit Holdings IV, LP | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2035
Term ends Jul 19, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 368 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
35
later US patents cite this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2024 in our data have been cited yet, so we show the count and do not rank on it.
How we rank
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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