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Navigational And/Or Robotic Tracking Methods and Systems

US 12,642,596 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

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

Term ends Oct 16, 2041 · Medium confidence

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

Held by Zimmer, Inc.
Filed Dec 12, 2022 as application 18/064,732 · Granted Jun 2, 2026
Base term plus 127 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2021 2041
Clock starts
Jun 11, 2021
Term ends
Oct 16, 2041
Granted
Jun 2, 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
127
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.
3
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 127 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 Jun 11, 2021, when application PCT/US2021/036985, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 12, 2022); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jun 11, 2041High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+127 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 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 orderOct 16, 2041Medium confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2021/036985PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 12,642,596this patent
Oct 2041
Oct 2041
Application 19/665,853Pending
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
Aug 15, 2023
Reel 64592, frame 534
Sexson, Benjamin; Patil, HrisheekeshMonogram Orthopaedics Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 13, 2026
Reel 74348, frame 613
Monogram Technologies Inc.Monogram Orthopaedics Inc.Merger
Apr 13, 2026
Reel 75391, frame 294
Monogram Technologies, LLCZimmer, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 13, 2026
Reel 75384, frame 4
Monogram Technologies Inc.Monogram Technologies LLCCertificate of Conversion Changing Company from Inc to LLC
Apr 23, 2026
Reel 75515, frame 666
Monogram Orthopaedics Inc.Monogram Technologies Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Conveying and Receiving Parties as Previously Recorded on Reel 74348 Frame 613. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

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

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