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Implants for Bone and Cartilage Repair

US 11,969,349 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 26, 2026 (Golub Capital Markets LLC).

Term ends Aug 7, 2032 · High confidence

Filed Mar 12, 2021 as application 17/199,920 · Granted Apr 30, 2024
Base term plus 46 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2012 2032
Clock starts
Jun 22, 2012
Term ends
Aug 7, 2032
Granted
Apr 30, 2024
base term patent term adjustment Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
46
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 46 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 22, 2012, when application 13/530,297, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 12, 2021)Jun 22, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+46 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 7, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 7, 2032High confidence

This family

Application 13/530,297Abandoned
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US 10,945,846In force
Jun 2032
Jun 2032
US 11,969,349this patent
Aug 2032
Aug 2032
Application 18/621,297Pending
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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
Mar 7, 2024
Reel 66680, frame 562
Li, Shu-tung; Chen, Hui-chen; Yuen, DebbieCollagen Matrix, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 26, 2026
Reel 73583, frame 614
Collagen Matrix, Inc.Golub Capital Markets LLC, as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest

Sources

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