Term ends Jun 18, 2037 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 22, 2037
Held by DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
Filed Jul 6, 2021 as application 17/367,875 · Granted Oct 22, 2024
Base term plus 116 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Feb 22, 2017
Feb 22, 2017
Term ends
Jun 18, 2037
Jun 18, 2037
Granted
Oct 22, 2024
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
116
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,013,503, to Jun 18, 2037. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
10
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 116 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Feb 22, 2017, when application 15/439,692, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 6, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 22, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +116 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 18, 2037 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,013,503) | resolves to Jun 18, 2037, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 15600234, 15439692, 15439692 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 18, 2037 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 10,603,050 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2017/018921 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2017/020218 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,083,512 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,134,962 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,076,903 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,696,770 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 12,121,279 | this patent Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
8 of 10 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Free plan: 3 watched companies. Pro: unlimited.
Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.
What's changing
Jun 2037
Term ends Jun 18, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 116 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,013,503, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
3
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.