Term ended Nov 8, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 17, 2026
Held by Flowsense Ltd.
Filed Apr 1, 2008 as application 11/794,843 · Granted Jul 27, 2010
Base term plus 295 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 8, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jan 17, 2006
Jan 17, 2006
Term ended
Nov 8, 2026
Nov 8, 2026
Granted
Jul 27, 2010
Jul 27, 2010
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
295
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.
3
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 295 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 Jan 17, 2006, when application PCT/IL2006/000065, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 1, 2008) | Jan 17, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +295 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 8, 2026 | 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, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,763,877 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,471,231 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2008 Reel 20775, frame 195 | Paz, Ilan | Med-I-Dynamix Fluid Monitoring LT | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 11, 2010 Reel 24515, frame 518 | Med-I-Dynamix Fluid Monitoring Ltd. | Flowsense Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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 295 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.