Term ends no later than Oct 9, 2040 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 29, 2040
In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.
Held by Cutera, Inc.
Filed Feb 20, 2022 as application 17/676,215 · Granted Mar 25, 2025
USPTO first gave this application the number US 12,121,742 and withdrew it before it issued. That number now leads here.
Base term plus 223 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Feb 29, 2020
Feb 29, 2020
Ends no later than
Oct 9, 2040
Oct 9, 2040
Granted
Mar 25, 2025
Mar 25, 2025
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
223
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
9
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 223 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 29, 2020, when application 16/805,761, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 20, 2022) | Feb 29, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +223 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 9, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | no later than Oct 9, 2040 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,864,380 | In force Feb 2040 | Feb 2040 |
| US 11,738,206 | In force no later than Aug 2040 | no later than Aug 2040 |
| US 11,253,720 | In force Feb 2040 | Feb 2040 |
| Application PCT/US2021/020143 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 12,642,985 | In force Oct 2041 | Oct 2041 |
| US 12,257,450 | this patent no later than Oct 2040 | no later than Oct 2040 |
| US 12,515,066 | In force no later than Jun 2040 | no later than Jun 2040 |
| Application 18/891,483 | Pending not computed | not computed |
8 of 9 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 2022 Reel 59054, frame 744 | Karavitis, Michael A.; Van Der Veer, Wytze E.; Kothare, Amogh; Moeller, Soenke A.; Gilliam, Shawn M. | Cutera, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 13, 2025 Reel 70505, frame 728 | Cutera, Inc. | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| May 5, 2025 Reel 71019, frame 980 | Cutera, Inc. | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | Security Interest |
| May 5, 2025 Reel 71020, frame 1 | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | Cutera, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2040
Term ends no later than Oct 9, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 223 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Oct 9, 2040. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2025 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. 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.