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Arthroscopic Flexible Portal Cannula Device and Delivery System

US 12,121,262 In force
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Term ends Apr 28, 2034 · High confidence

Filed Mar 6, 2023 as application 18/179,007 · Granted Oct 22, 2024
Base term plus 49 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2034
Clock starts
Mar 10, 2014
Term ends
Apr 28, 2034
Granted
Oct 22, 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
49
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.
5
Family applications on record here
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This patent's term runs 49 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 Mar 10, 2014, when application 14/203,445, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 6, 2023)Mar 10, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+49 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 28, 2034High 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 orderApr 28, 2034High confidence

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US 11,596,440In force
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US 12,121,262this patent
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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, 2023
Reel 62905, frame 228
Kucklick, Theodore R.Cannuflow, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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