Lapsed Jan 24, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 4, 2028
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Theranova, LLC
Filed Apr 4, 2008 as application 12/098,365 · Granted Jan 24, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 209 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 24, 2024
2008
2028
Clock starts
Apr 4, 2008
Apr 4, 2008
No longer in force
Jan 24, 2024
Jan 24, 2024
Granted
Jan 24, 2012
Jan 24, 2012
Term would have run to
Oct 30, 2028
Oct 30, 2028
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
209
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
Its term would have run to Oct 30, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 209 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 Apr 4, 2008, when this application, 12/098,365, was filed | Apr 4, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +209 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 30, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jan 24, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 24, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,100,880 | this patent Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 8,480,648 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| Application 13/937,102 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/009,687 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/013,813 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,800,992 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| Application 18/472,625 | Pending 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2008 Reel 21209, frame 91 | Burnett, Daniel Rogers; Hall, Gregory; Hermanson, Christopher; Rajguru, Amit | Theranova, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 14, 2008 Reel 21232, frame 382 | Theranova, LLC | Velomedix, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 3, 2015 Reel 35551, frame 729 | Velomedix, Inc. | Theranova, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 209 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2012 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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