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System and Method for Assisting the Heart in Pumping Blood

US 12,616,827 In force
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Term ends Jul 16, 2041 · High confidence

Filed Nov 14, 2023 as application 18/509,260 · Granted May 5, 2026
Base term plus 116 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2021 2041
Clock starts
Mar 22, 2021
Term ends
Jul 16, 2041
Granted
May 5, 2026
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
116
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.
17
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. 0 of 3 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 Mar 22, 2021, when application 17/208,776, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 14, 2023)Mar 22, 2041High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+116 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 16, 2041High 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 orderJul 16, 2041High confidence

This family

US 11,383,076In force
Mar 2041
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Application PCT/US2021/053231PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 12,697,482In force
Dec 2043
Dec 2043
Application 17/931,853Abandoned
not computed
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US 12,263,332In force
Feb 2043
Feb 2043
US 11,896,812In force
Jan 2043
Jan 2043
US 12,115,363In force
Aug 2043
Aug 2043
US 12,616,827this patent
Jul 2041
Jul 2041
8 of 17 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
Nov 14, 2023
Reel 65563, frame 43
Anstadt, Mark P.Lifebridge Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 15, 2024
Reel 67109, frame 417
Lifebridge Technologies, LLCLifebridge Technologies LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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