Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 6, 2015 (Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.).
Term ended Mar 7, 2023 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 7, 2023
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Avent, Inc.
Filed Mar 15, 2005 as application 11/079,318 · Granted Sep 22, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Mar 7, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
Mar 7, 2003
Mar 7, 2003
Term ended
Mar 7, 2023
Mar 7, 2023
Granted
Sep 22, 2009
Sep 22, 2009
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
40
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 7, 2003, when application 10/382,836, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 15, 2005); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 7, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | Mar 7, 2023 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 6,896,675 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| Application 10/382,836 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/853,126 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,163,536 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 7,593,778 | this patent Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 8,882,755 | Term ended Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| Application 11/105,490 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,294,127 | Term ended Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
8 of 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2005 Reel 16390, frame 621 | Chandran, Subashini; Shah, Krishan | Baylis Medical Company Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 10, 2010 Reel 23915, frame 252 | Baylis Medical Company Inc. | Kimberly-Clark Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 16, 2014 Reel 34515, frame 310 | Kimberly-Clark Inc. | Avent Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 13, 2015 Reel 34754, frame 1 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Avent, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 6, 2015 Reel 35375, frame 867 | Avent, Inc. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Jan 23, 2019 Reel 48173, frame 137 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Citibank, N.a. | Intellectual Property Security Interest Assignment Agreement |
| Jun 24, 2022 Reel 60441, frame 445 | Avent, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Jun 30, 2022 Reel 60557, frame 62 | Citibank, N.a. | Avent, Inc.; Avanos Medical Sales, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 30, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | Citibank, N.a. | Avent, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 30, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | Citibank, N.a. | Avanos Medical Sales, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 28, 2026 Reel 76077, frame 108 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Avent, Inc.; Avanos Medical Sales, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 28, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Avent, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 28, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Avanos Medical Sales, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
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later US patents cite this one
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