Term ended Jan 4, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 3, 2023
Held by Masimo Corporation
Filed Dec 3, 2003 as application 10/727,348 · Granted Nov 29, 2005
Base term plus 32 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jan 4, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Dec 3, 2003
Dec 3, 2003
Term ended
Jan 4, 2024
Jan 4, 2024
Granted
Nov 29, 2005
Nov 29, 2005
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
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
32
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
137
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 32 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 3, 2003, when this application, 10/727,348, was filed | Dec 3, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +32 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 4, 2024 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 4, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,920,345 | Term ended Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
| Application 60/485,761 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 6,970,792 | this patent Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| Application 60/540,082 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2004/021352 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,254,429 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 7,438,683 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Application 60/671,007 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 137 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2004 Reel 15368, frame 267 | Diab, Mohamed K. | Masimo Laboratories, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 11, 2012 Reel 28192, frame 453 | Masimo Laboratories, Inc. | Cercacor Laboratories, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 9, 2016 Reel 38049, frame 74 | Cercacor Laboratories, Inc. | Masimo Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 32 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1,063
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2005 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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