Term ended Jun 6, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 27, 2023
Filed Jan 18, 2007 as application 11/624,364 · Granted Mar 8, 2011
Base term plus 1075 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jun 6, 2026
2003
2026
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2003
Jun 27, 2003
Term ended
Jun 6, 2026
Jun 6, 2026
Granted
Mar 8, 2011
Mar 8, 2011
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
1,075
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 1075 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 Jun 27, 2003, when application 10/607,962, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 18, 2007) | Jun 27, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1075 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 6, 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 | Jun 6, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,177,698 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 7,822,480 | In force Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| US 7,904,167 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2008 Reel 21201, frame 96 | Klosterman, Daniel J.; Haller, Matthew I; Parramon, Jordi; McClure, Kelly H; Marnfeldt, Goran N; Park, Rudolph V | Advanced Bionics Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 8, 2008 Reel 21202, frame 318 | Advanced Bionics Corporation | Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 1075 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
109
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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