Term ended Aug 22, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 29, 2021
Filed Aug 29, 2001 as application 09/940,986 · Granted May 20, 2008
Base term plus 1089 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Aug 22, 2024
2001
2026
Clock starts
Aug 29, 2001
Aug 29, 2001
Term ended
Aug 22, 2024
Aug 22, 2024
Granted
May 20, 2008
May 20, 2008
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
1,089
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.
19
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 1089 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 Aug 29, 2001, when this application, 09/940,986, was filed | Aug 29, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1089 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 22, 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 | Aug 22, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,422,579 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2020 | Sep 2020 |
| US 7,374,560 | this patent Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 7,604,612 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Application 10/301,779 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,763,012 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2004/027405 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,654,978 | Term ended May 2021 | May 2021 |
| US 8,221,348 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
8 of 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2001 Reel 12130, frame 244 | Ressemann, Thomas V.; Hackett, Steven S.; Dusbabek, Andrew J.; Olson, Scott A.; Keith, Peter T.; Wahr, Dennis W. | Velocimed, L.l.c. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 25, 2003 Reel 14427, frame 181 | Velocimed LLC | Velocimed, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 20, 2006 Reel 17205, frame 651 | Velocimed, Inc. | ST. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | Merger/Change of Name |
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Note
The 1089 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
370
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2008 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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