Also listed on Advanced Bionics AG, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Sep 16, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 27, 2023
Filed Jan 25, 2005 as application 11/043,404 · Granted Oct 26, 2010
Base term plus 1542 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2003
2027
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2003
Jun 27, 2003
Term ends
Sep 16, 2027
Sep 16, 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
1,542
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.
7
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 1542 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 Jun 27, 2003, when application 10/607,962, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 25, 2005) | Jun 27, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1542 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 16, 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 | Sep 16, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,177,698 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 7,822,480 | this patent Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| US 7,904,167 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 8,670,835 | Term ended no later than Dec 2023 | no later than Dec 2023 |
| US 8,655,451 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 9,079,041 | Term ended Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 9,242,106 | Term ended Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
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 6, 2005 Reel 16201, frame 700 | Parramon, Jordi; Klosterman, Daniel; Marnfeldt, Goran N. | Advanced Bionics Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 1, 2008 Reel 21181, frame 345 | Advanced Bionics Corporation | Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation | Change of Name |
| May 26, 2010 Reel 24444, frame 14 | Park, Rudolph | Advanced Bionics Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2027
Term ends Sep 16, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1542 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
92
later US patents cite this one
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