Also listed on Stryker Imaging Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 1, 2025 (TCG Senior Funding L.L.C.).
Term ends Nov 27, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 23, 2024
Held by Merative US L.P.
Filed Dec 23, 2004 as application 10/905,279 · Granted Nov 29, 2011
Base term plus 1435 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2028
Clock starts
Dec 23, 2004
Dec 23, 2004
Term ends
Nov 27, 2028
Nov 27, 2028
Granted
Nov 29, 2011
Nov 29, 2011
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
1,435
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.
3
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 1435 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 Dec 23, 2004, when this application, 10/905,279, was filed | Dec 23, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1435 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 27, 2028 | 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 | Nov 27, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,069,060 | this patent Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2005/046108 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 12/586,215 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2005 Reel 15738, frame 949 | Tipimeni, Kishore | Etrauma.com Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 30, 2005 Reel 16206, frame 305 | Etrauma.com Corporation | Stryker Corporation | Merger |
| Aug 19, 2010 Reel 24900, frame 778 | Etrauma.com Corp.; Trauma Acquisition Corp. | Etrauma.com Corp. | Correction to Merger Recorded on Reel 016206 Frame 0305 |
| Aug 30, 2010 Reel 24906, frame 598 | Etrauma.com Corp. | Stryker Imaging Corporation | Change of Name |
| Oct 12, 2010 Reel 25126, frame 188 | Stryker Imaging Corporation | The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. | Security Agreement |
| Feb 10, 2011 Reel 25780, frame 192 | Stryker Imaging Corporation | Merge Healthcare Incorporated | Stock Purchase Agreement |
| Apr 24, 2013 Reel 30281, frame 510 | Merge Healthcare Incorporated; Merge Asset Management Corp.; Merge Eclinical Inc.; Merge Healthcare Solutions Inc.; Merge SF Holdings, Inc.; Merge SH Holdings, Inc.; Requisite Software Inc.; Merge Interactive, Incorporated | Jefferies Finance LLC | Security Agreement |
| Apr 29, 2014 Reel 32784, frame 644 | Merge Healthcare Incorporated; Merge Asset Management Corp.; Merge Eclinical Inc.; Merge Healthcare Solutions Inc.; Merge SF Holdings, Inc.; Merge SH Holdings, Inc.; Requisite Software Inc. | Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Apr 29, 2014 Reel 32784, frame 850 | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Merge Healthcare Incorporated; Merge Asset Management Corp.; Merge Eclinical Inc.; Merge Healthcare Solutions Inc.; Merge SF Holdings, Inc.; Merge SH Holdings, Inc.; Requisite Software Inc.; Merge Interactive, Incorporated | Termination and Release of Security Interest (PATENTS) (REEL 030281/FRAME 0510) |
| Apr 29, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Merge Healthcare Incorporated | Termination and Release of Security Interest (PATENTS) (REEL 030281/FRAME 0510) |
| Apr 29, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Merge Asset Management Corp. | Termination and Release of Security Interest (PATENTS) (REEL 030281/FRAME 0510) |
| Apr 29, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Merge Eclinical Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest (PATENTS) (REEL 030281/FRAME 0510) |
| Apr 29, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Merge Healthcare Solutions Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest (PATENTS) (REEL 030281/FRAME 0510) |
| Apr 29, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Merge SF Holdings, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest (PATENTS) (REEL 030281/FRAME 0510) |
| Apr 29, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Merge SH Holdings, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest (PATENTS) (REEL 030281/FRAME 0510) |
| Apr 29, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Requisite Software Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest (PATENTS) (REEL 030281/FRAME 0510) |
| Apr 29, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Merge Interactive, Incorporated | Termination and Release of Security Interest (PATENTS) (REEL 030281/FRAME 0510) |
| Oct 15, 2015 Reel 36874, frame 234 | Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC | Merge Healthcare Solutions Inc.; Merge Healthcare Incorporated; Merge SH Holdings, Inc.; Requisite Software, Inc.; Cedara Software Corp.; Ultravisual Medical Systems Corporation; Merge Eclinical, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 15, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC | Merge Healthcare Solutions Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 15, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC | Merge Healthcare Incorporated | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 15, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC | Merge SH Holdings, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 15, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC | Requisite Software, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 15, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC | Cedara Software Corp. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 15, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC | Ultravisual Medical Systems Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 15, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC | Merge Eclinical, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 24, 2018 Reel 45164, frame 262 | Merge Healthcare Incorporated | Merge Healthcare Incorporated | Change of Correspondence Address of Assignee |
| Jun 6, 2019 Reel 49390, frame 875 | Stryker Imaging Corporation | The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 4, 2019 Reel 50262, frame 200 | The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. | Stryker Imaging Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Conveying and Receiving Party Data Previously Recorded at Reel: 049390 Frame: 0875. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interest. |
| Mar 19, 2021 Reel 55661, frame 386 | Merge Healthcare Incorporated | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2022 Reel 61496, frame 752 | International Business Machines Corporation | Merative US L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 1, 2025 Reel 72808, frame 442 | Merative US L.P.; Merge Healthcare Incorporated | TCG Senior Funding L.L.C., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
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
Nov 2028
Term ends Nov 27, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1435 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
105
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.
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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.