Also listed on Coalign Innovations, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jan 8, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 12, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by VB Spine LLC
Filed Oct 31, 2007 as application 11/980,977 · Granted Oct 26, 2010
Base term plus 514 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Aug 12, 2005
Aug 12, 2005
Term ends
Jan 8, 2027
Jan 8, 2027
Granted
Oct 26, 2010
Oct 26, 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
514
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.
2
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 514 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Aug 12, 2005, when application 11/202,725, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 31, 2007); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 12, 2025 | 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 | +514 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 8, 2027 | 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 | Jan 8, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,722,674 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2022 | May 2022 |
| US 7,819,921 | this patent Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2010 Reel 24686, frame 21 | Innvotec Surgical, Inc. | Coalign Innovations, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jul 27, 2010 Reel 24745, frame 875 | Grotz, Thomas R. | Innvotec Surgical, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 19, 2015 Reel 35667, frame 165 | Coalign Innovations, Inc. | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | Merger |
| May 8, 2025 Reel 71224, frame 768 | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | VB Spine US Opco LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 16, 2025 Reel 71682, frame 116 | K2M, Inc.; VB Spine US Opco LLC; VB Spine LLC | Ankura Trust Company, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Aug 8, 2025 Reel 72340, frame 397 | K2M, Inc.; VB Spine US Opco LLC | Texas Capital Bank, As Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jun 23, 2026 Reel 75812, frame 865 | VB Spine US Opco LLC | VB Spine LLC | 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
Jan 2027
Term ends Jan 8, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 514 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
442
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.
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.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.