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System and Method for Providing Improved Cardiac Pump Function Through Synchronization with the Natural Mechanical Contractions of the Heart

US 12,697,482 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Dec 26, 2043 · High confidence

Filed May 26, 2022 as application 17/825,343 · Granted Aug 4, 2026
Base term plus 1009 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2021 2043
Clock starts
Mar 22, 2021
Term ends
Dec 26, 2043
Granted
Aug 4, 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
1,009
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 1009 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 May 26, 2022)Mar 22, 2041High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1009 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 26, 2043High 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 orderDec 26, 2043High confidence

This family

US 11,383,076In force
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Application PCT/US2021/053231PCT application
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no patent term
US 12,697,482this patent
Dec 2043
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Application 17/931,853Abandoned
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US 12,263,332In force
Feb 2043
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US 11,896,812In force
Jan 2043
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US 12,115,363In force
Aug 2043
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US 12,616,827In force
Jul 2041
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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
May 26, 2022
Reel 60026, frame 961
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

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