Lapsed Oct 25, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 18, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Inspiremd Ltd.
Filed Oct 18, 2006 as application 11/582,354 · Granted Oct 25, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1235 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 25, 2019
2006
2030
Clock starts
Oct 18, 2006
Oct 18, 2006
No longer in force
Oct 25, 2019
Oct 25, 2019
Granted
Oct 25, 2011
Oct 25, 2011
Term would have run to
Mar 6, 2030
Mar 6, 2030
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
1,235
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
11
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Mar 6, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 1235 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Oct 18, 2006, when this application, 11/582,354, was filed | Oct 18, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1235 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 6, 2030 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 25, 2019 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 25, 2019 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,043,323 | this patent Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
| US 8,961,586 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 10,070,977 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| Application 12/445,968 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,132,261 | In force no later than Jul 2029 | no later than Jul 2029 |
| US 10,058,440 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| Application 14/705,871 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,932,926 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
8 of 11 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 18, 2006 Reel 18426, frame 770 | Holzer, Asher; Bar, Eli; Paz, Ofir | Inspiremd Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 5, 2012 Reel 27993, frame 898 | Inspire M.D. Ltd. | Hug Funding LLC, as Agent | Security Agreement |
| Apr 5, 2012 Reel 28253, frame 499 | Inspire M.D. Ltd. | Hug Funding LLC, as Agent | Corrective Assignment to Correct the City of the Receiving Party, Previously Recorded on Reel 027993 Frame 0898. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Grant of the Security Interest as Described in the Recorded Intellectual Property Security Agreement. |
| Apr 18, 2013 Reel 30240, frame 513 | Hug Funding LLC, as Agent | Inspire M.D. Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 14, 2016 Reel 38993, frame 533 | Inspire M.D Ltd. | Hercules Capital, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Jun 8, 2017 Reel 42654, frame 234 | Hercules Capital, Inc. | Inspiremd, Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 1235 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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