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RF Fractional Device for Treatment at Different Tissue Depths

US 12,496,121 In force
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Term ends Jan 28, 2040 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Inmode Ltd.
Filed Feb 8, 2021 as application 17/169,731 · Granted Dec 16, 2025
Base term plus 1084 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2040
Clock starts
Feb 8, 2017
Term ends
Jan 28, 2040
Granted
Dec 16, 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
1,084
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 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.
4
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 1084 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 8, 2017, when application 15/427,332, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 8, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Feb 8, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+1084 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 28, 2040High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 28, 2040Medium confidence

This family

US 11,779,388In force
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US 12,502,214In force
Feb 2040
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US 12,496,121this patent
Jan 2040
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3 of 4 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Feb 9, 2021
Reel 55188, frame 930
Kreindel, MichaelInmode Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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