Term ended Aug 29, 2017 · From the USPTO record
20-year base term ended May 17, 2015
Held by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Filed Feb 7, 2006 as application 11/348,995 · Granted Jun 15, 2010
Base term plus 835 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Aug 29, 2017
1995
2026
Clock starts
May 17, 1995
May 17, 1995
Term ended
Aug 29, 2017
Aug 29, 2017
Granted
Jun 15, 2010
Jun 15, 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
835
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
68
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 835 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. Confidence: Breadth. 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 17, 1995, when application 08/442,843, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 7, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 17, 2015 | 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 | +835 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 29, 2017 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 29, 2017 | From the USPTO record |
This family
| US 7,048,906 | Term ended Jan 2017 | Jan 2017 |
| US 7,081,239 | Term ended no later than Jun 2015 | no later than Jun 2015 |
| US 7,244,412 | Term ended Dec 2015 | Dec 2015 |
| US 7,056,686 | Term ended Aug 2019 | Aug 2019 |
| US 8,868,772 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 7,452,857 | Term ended no later than Jan 2020 | no later than Jan 2020 |
| US 7,736,622 | this patent Aug 2017 | Aug 2017 |
| Application 11/411,733 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 68 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 2006 Reel 17560, frame 246 | Lin, Henry C.; Pimentel, Mark | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 13, 2016 Reel 39323, frame 903 | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | National Institutes of Health (Nih), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Government | Confirmatory License |
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The 835 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
78
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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