Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 29, 2022 (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce).
Term ends Apr 1, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 8, 2028
Held by Transmedics, Inc.
Filed Jul 30, 2020 as application 16/943,808 · Granted Jun 3, 2025
Base term plus 723 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2030
Clock starts
Apr 8, 2008
Apr 8, 2008
Term ends
Apr 1, 2030
Apr 1, 2030
Granted
Jun 3, 2025
Jun 3, 2025
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
723
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 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it 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 723 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 1 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Apr 8, 2008, when application 12/099,687, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 30, 2020) | Apr 8, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +723 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 1, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 1, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,462,802 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 8,420,380 | In force no later than Apr 2031 | no later than Apr 2031 |
| US 10,750,738 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| US 9,247,728 | In force no later than Sep 2031 | no later than Sep 2031 |
| US 9,814,230 | In force no later than Jan 2031 | no later than Jan 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2009/032619 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,516,875 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| US 12,317,888 | this patent Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2020 Reel 54365, frame 482 | Robert Fishman; Havener, Robert; Abdelazim, Anas; Newell, Scott; Bishop, Thomas H; Khayal, Tamer; Kyi, Stanley; Taylor, Ronald, JR; Harriott, Doug; De Remer, Matthew; Murray, Paul; Sullivan, John; Anderson, Mark; Bringham, Richard; Hassanein, Waleed H; Van Driel, Michael; Fattah, Ihab Abdel | Transmedics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 29, 2022 Reel 60677, frame 520 | Transmedics, Inc. | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Apr 2030
Term ends Apr 1, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 723 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
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