Term ended Oct 20, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 30, 2023
Held by Teleflex Technologies LLC
Filed May 30, 2003 as application 10/449,476 · Granted Apr 20, 2010
Base term plus 509 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 20, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
May 30, 2003
May 30, 2003
Term ended
Oct 20, 2024
Oct 20, 2024
Granted
Apr 20, 2010
Apr 20, 2010
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
509
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.
71
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 509 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 May 30, 2003, when this application, 10/449,476, was filed | May 30, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +509 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 20, 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 | Oct 20, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,670,328 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 7,699,850 | this patent Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Application 10/448,650 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,142,365 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 9,314,228 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 8,641,715 | In force Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| US 7,815,642 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 7,811,260 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
8 of 71 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 30, 2003 Reel 14143, frame 323 | Miller, Larry J. | Vidacare Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 14, 2007 Reel 20105, frame 544 | Vidacare Corporation | Comerica Bank | Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Sep 15, 2009 Reel 23234, frame 56 | Comerica Bank | Vidacare Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 19, 2015 Reel 37146, frame 642 | Vidacare Corporation | Vidacare LLC | Change of Name |
| Feb 23, 2017 Reel 41784, frame 700 | Vidacare LLC | Teleflex Medical Devices S.À R.L. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 13, 2020 Reel 51580, frame 212 | Teleflex Medical Devices S.À R.L. | Teleflex Life Sciences Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 16, 2024 Reel 66616, frame 701 | Teleflex Life Sciences Limited | Teleflex Life Sciences II LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 16, 2024 Reel 66621, frame 882 | Teleflex Technologies LLC | Teleflex Life Sciences II LLC | Change of Name |
| Feb 16, 2024 Reel 66621, frame 946 | Teleflex Life Sciences II LLC | Teleflex Technologies LLC | Merger |
| Mar 1, 2024 Reel 66723, frame 376 | Teleflex Life Sciences II LLC | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 24, 2026 Reel 76062, frame 647 | JPMorgan Chase Bank , N.A., as Administrative Agent | Teleflex Life Sciences II LLC | Release of Security Interest in Patents at Reel/Frame 66723/0376 |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 509 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
260
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2010 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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