Term ended Nov 8, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 1, 2025
Held by Cochlear Limited
Filed Apr 1, 2005 as application 11/097,113 · Granted May 8, 2007
Base term plus 221 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 8, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Apr 1, 2005
Apr 1, 2005
Term ended
Nov 8, 2025
Nov 8, 2025
Granted
May 8, 2007
May 8, 2007
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
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
221
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.
2
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 221 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 Apr 1, 2005, when this application, 11/097,113, was filed | Apr 1, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +221 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 8, 2025 | 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 | Nov 8, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,214,179 | this patent Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 7,840,020 | In force no later than Aug 2028 | no later than Aug 2028 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
The 40 most recent of 202 recorded documents are shown; the 162 earliest are not. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Leaverton, Karl V. | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Thomas T. and Margaret A. Loftus | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Peter S. and Carolyn A. Lynch | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Lynch Foundation, The | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Moschetti, Donald J. | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Pihl, Marjorie J. | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Randall, William C. | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Rice, Daniel F. | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Wayne & Marlene Rognlin | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Shlopak, Gregory P. | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Patrick A. & Karen D. Smith | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Steele, Richard | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | H.R. Swanson Revocable Trust | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Lester J. and Darlene K. Swenson | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | R. Randall Vosbeck Revocable Trust | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Warden, Richard H. | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | O. Burton Wastcoat Trust | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Ronald C. White Trust | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | WWF & Company | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Wooller, Joseph W. Iii | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Jul 13, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Yost Partnership, L.p. | 2ND Amend to Patent Security Agreement with Securi |
| Aug 30, 2006 Reel 18350, frame 855 | Otologics, LLC | Melrose, Kendrick; Hanser, Laura H.; Hanser, S. Albert D., Trustee for Sally Dodge Hanser Revocable Trust U/A; Hanser, S. Albert D., Trustee for S. Albert D. Hanser Revocable Trust U/A; Belbas, Dean, Trustee of the Dean Belbas Revocable Trust; Coborn, Daniel G.; Coborn, Christopher; Lynch Foundation, The; Peter & Carolyn Lynch; Hanser, III, Albert; Solon, SR., Vlasie; Shlopak, Gregory P.; King, Jerry & Martha | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Melrose, Kendrick | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Hanser, Laura H. | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Hanser, S. Albert D., Trustee for Sally Dodge Hanser Revocable Trust U/A | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Hanser, S. Albert D., Trustee for S. Albert D. Hanser Revocable Trust U/A | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Belbas, Dean, Trustee of the Dean Belbas Revocable Trust | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Coborn, Daniel G. | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Coborn, Christopher | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Lynch Foundation, The | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Peter & Carolyn Lynch | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Hanser, III, Albert | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Solon, SR., Vlasie | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | Shlopak, Gregory P. | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Aug 30, 2006 reel/frame not recorded | Otologics, LLC | King, Jerry & Martha | First Amendment to Security Agreement of Security |
| Mar 16, 2007 Reel 19019, frame 853 | Affinity Ventures Iii, L.p.; Dean Belbas, Trustee of the Dean Belbas Revocable Trust; BR Direct Marketing, Inc.; Brandsness, David; Brister, Matthew; Brown, Richard N.; Bryngelson, John And Carlyn; Carlson, Dan H. and Leslie T.; Clark, Stuart; Dack Cattle Trust; Faust, Ronald F. and Georgiana; Ferguson, John A., III; GJ General Partnership; Hall, Peter T.; Margulis, Martha H.; S. Albert D. Hanser, Trustee for S. Albert D. Hanser Revocable Trust U/A; Les Hardy, Jr. Living Trust; Kay L. Hardy Living Trust; Himle, John And Karen; Illanes, Eduardo And Diane; Kasprick, Lyle; Kasprick, Kathleen; Kenworthy, Maria; King, Jerry And Martha; King, John J.; King, Maureen; King, Margaret; Hails, Mark; King, Laurie; King, David G.; Jack J. Korff Trust; Kristo, Steven J.; Leaverton, Karl V.; Loftus, Thomas T. and Margaret A.; Lynch, Peter S. and Carolyn A.; The Lynch Foundation; Moschetti, Donald J.; Pihl, Marjorie J.; Randall, William C.; Rice, Daniel F.; Rognlin, Wayne & Marlene; Shlopak, Gregory P.; Smith, Patrick A. & Karen D.; Steele, Richard; H.R. Swanson Revocable Trust; Swenson, Lester J. and Darlene K.; R. Randall Vosbeck Revocable Trust; Warden, Richard H.; O. Burton Wastcoat Trust; Ronald C. White Trust; WWF & Company; Wooller, Joseph W., III; Yost Partnership, L.p.; Dorsey R. Gardner 2002 Trust; Olseth, Dale R.; Erickson, Ronald A. and Kristine S.; Erickson, David S.; Erickson, Brian; Alfred & Rose Erickson Trust; Friswold, Fred R.; Medtronic, Inc.; Elizabeth T. Johnson and Lee W. Johnson, Trustees of the Elizabeth T. Johnson Trust Agreement | Otologic, LLC | Acknowledgement of Release of Security Agmt |
| Jan 22, 2010 Reel 23832, frame 387 | Otologics, L.l.c. | Cochlear Limited | Security Agreement |
| Mar 11, 2010 Reel 24066, frame 349 | Medtronic, Inc. | Otologics, LLC | Ackgt. of Ineffective Pat. Assmt. Agmt. |
| Oct 3, 2012 Reel 29072, frame 633 | Cochlear Limited | Otologics, L.l.c. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 3, 2012 Reel 29072, frame 647 | Otologics, L.l.c. | Cochlear Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Citations
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later US patents cite this one
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