Collateral for a security interest recorded May 29, 2020 (Solar Capital Ltd.).
Term ended Dec 13, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 9, 2024
Held by Si-Bone Inc.
Filed May 24, 2005 as application 11/136,141 · Granted Apr 12, 2011
Base term plus 491 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Dec 13, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Aug 9, 2004
Aug 9, 2004
Term ended
Dec 13, 2025
Dec 13, 2025
Granted
Apr 12, 2011
Apr 12, 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
491
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.
38
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 491 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 Aug 9, 2004, when application 10/914,629, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 24, 2005) | Aug 9, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +491 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 13, 2025 | 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 | Dec 13, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/914,629 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,922,765 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| Application 11/653,504 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/981,009 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2008/000202 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,308,779 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 9,662,158 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 8,202,305 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
8 of 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2007 Reel 19804, frame 608 | Reiley, Mark A. | Inbone Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 26, 2011 Reel 26183, frame 195 | Inbone Technologies, Inc. | Si-Bone Inc. | Technology Transfer Agreement |
| Oct 27, 2017 Reel 43975, frame 669 | Si-Bone, Inc. | Biopharma Credit Investments IV Sub LP | Security Interest |
| May 29, 2020 Reel 52794, frame 423 | Biopharma Credit Investments IV Sub LP | Si-Bone, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral at Reel/Frame No. 043975/0669 |
| May 29, 2020 Reel 52795, frame 289 | Si-Bone, Inc. | Solar Capital Ltd., as Collateral Agent | Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Aug 12, 2021 Reel 57182, frame 104 | SLR Investment Corp. (F/K/A Solar Capital Ltd., as Collateral Agent) | Si-Bone, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
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Note
The 491 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
224
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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