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Methods of Stabilizing an Intervertebral Scaffolding System

US 12,390,346 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Also listed on Integrity Implants Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 18, 2025 (Cerberus Business Finance Agency, LLC).

Term ends Jan 22, 2035 · High confidence

Filed Jan 12, 2024 as application 18/411,956 · Granted Aug 19, 2025
Base term plus 2 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2015 2035
Clock starts
Jan 20, 2015
Term ends
Jan 22, 2035
Granted
Aug 19, 2025
base term 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
2
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 11,918,484, to Jan 22, 2035. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
8
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 2 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 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 Jan 20, 2015, when application 14/600,617, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 12, 2024)Jan 20, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+2 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 22, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,918,484)resolves to Jan 22, 2035, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 22, 2035High confidence

This family

US 9,060,876In force
Jan 2035
Jan 2035
US 9,402,733In force
Jan 2035
Jan 2035
Application PCT/US2016/014100PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,999,517Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2026
Jun 2026
US 10,758,368In force
Jan 2035
Jan 2035
US 11,918,484In force
Oct 2036
Oct 2036
US 12,390,346this patent
Jan 2035
Jan 2035
Application 19/293,875Pending
not computed
not computed
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
Jan 18, 2025
Reel 69926, frame 86
To, John; Flynn, John JOuroboros Medical, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 19, 2025
Reel 69926, frame 97
Ouroboros Medical, Inc.Integrity Implants Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 17, 2025
Reel 72281, frame 955
Integrity Implants Inc.Highridge Medical LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 18, 2025
Reel 72942, frame 175
Highridge Medical, LLC (F/K/A Zimmer Biomet Spine, LLC)Cerberus Business Finance Agency, LLC, as Collateral AgentGrant of a Security Interest -- Patents
Jun 27, 2026
Reel 76224, frame 379
Zeb Intermediate, LLC; Zeb Buyer, LLC,; Highridge Medical, LLC,Wingspire Capital LLC, as Administrative AgentSecurity Interest

Sources

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

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