Term ends Oct 13, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 27, 2025
Held by Covidien LP
Filed Jul 27, 2005 as application 11/191,665 · Granted Aug 10, 2010
Base term plus 1174 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2028
Clock starts
Jul 27, 2005
Jul 27, 2005
Term ends
Oct 13, 2028
Oct 13, 2028
Granted
Aug 10, 2010
Aug 10, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,174
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.
75
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 1174 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jul 27, 2005, when this application, 11/191,665, was filed | Jul 27, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1174 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 13, 2028 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 13, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 60/275,869 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 6,981,941 | Term ended Jun 2019 | Jun 2019 |
| Application 60/285,113 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 60/289,370 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 6,505,768 | Term ended no later than Jul 2019 | no later than Jul 2019 |
| US 7,032,798 | Term ended no later than Jun 2019 | no later than Jun 2019 |
| US 6,843,403 | Term ended no later than Jun 2019 | no later than Jun 2019 |
| US 7,951,071 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2019 | May 2019 |
8 of 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 2005 Reel 16890, frame 400 | Whitman, Michael P.; Datcuk, Peter T. | Power Medical Interventions, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 7, 2005 Reel 16862, frame 60 | Power Medical Interventions, Inc. | General Electric Capital Corporation | Security Agreement |
| Apr 2, 2007 Reel 19094, frame 726 | Power Medical Interventions, Inc. | The Bank of New York | Security Agreement |
| Oct 1, 2009 Reel 23312, frame 592 | Power Medical Interventions, Inc. | Power Medical Interventions, LLC | Merger |
| Nov 13, 2009 Reel 23513, frame 802 | General Electric Capital Corporation | Power Medical Interventions, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 19, 2009 Reel 23538, frame 389 | The Bank of New York Mellon | Power Medical Interventions, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| May 2, 2011 Reel 26206, frame 173 | Power Medical Interventions, LLC | Tyco Healthcare Group LP | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 2, 2012 Reel 29065, frame 448 | Tyco Healthcare Group LP | Covidien LP | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2028
Term ends Oct 13, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1174 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3,036
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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