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Methods and Devices for Tissue Grasping and Assessment

US 12,121,231 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ended May 12, 2026 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Evalve, Inc.
Filed Apr 18, 2022 as application 17/723,402 · Granted Oct 22, 2024
Base term plus 227 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended May 12, 2026
2005 2026
Clock starts
Sep 27, 2005
Term ended
May 12, 2026
Granted
Oct 22, 2024
base term patent term adjustment 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
227
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
7
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 227 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. 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 Sep 27, 2005, when application 11/237,213, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 18, 2022); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Sep 27, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+227 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 12, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo maintenance fee can end the term earlyterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 12, 2026Medium confidence

This family

US 7,635,329In force
Jun 2028
Jun 2028
Application 14/070,936Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 11,484,331Term ended
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
US 11,304,715Term ended
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
US 12,121,231this patent
May 2026
May 2026
5 of 7 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
May 4, 2022
Reel 59812, frame 28
Goldfarb, Eric A.; Thornton, Troy L.; Raschdorf, Alfred H.; Sarabia, Jaime E.; Madden, John P.; Powell, Ferolyn T.; Martin, Brian B.; Wen-chin Fan, Sylvia; Komtebedde, Jan; Liao, Yen C.Evalve, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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