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Fluid Dispenser with Additive Sub-System

US 8,226,609 In force, term unresolved
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Also listed on Bioq Pharma Incorporated, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends no later than Jul 16, 2027 · Medium confidence

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Filed Jun 3, 2009 as application 12/455,617 · Granted Jul 24, 2012
Base term plus 21 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2007 2027
Clock starts
Jun 25, 2007
Ends no later than
Jul 16, 2027
Granted
Jul 24, 2012
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
21
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
5
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 21 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 25, 2007, when application 11/823,084, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 3, 2009)Jun 25, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+21 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 16, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Jul 16, 2027Medium confidence

This family

US 8,292,848Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2024
Oct 2024
Application 11/982,719Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application PCT/US2008/007945PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,211,059Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2024
Jul 2024
US 8,226,609this patent
no later than Jul 2027
no later than Jul 2027
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 16, 2009
Reel 22984, frame 763
Kriesel, Marshall S.; Thompson, Thomas N.; Kriesel, Joshua W.Bioquiddity, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 29, 2016
Reel 37654, frame 867
Bioquiddity IncorporatedBioq Pharma IncorporatedChange of Name
Aug 9, 2017
Reel 43507, frame 944
Bioq Pharma IncorporatedMadryn Health Partners, LPSecurity Interest
Jul 13, 2023
Reel 64273, frame 414
Madryn Health Partners, LPMadryn Fund Administration, LLCSecurity Interest
Jun 25, 2026
Reel 75815, frame 221
Madryn Fund Administration, LLC, a Secured Party Conducting a Public Secured Party Sale of Assets of Bioq Pharma IncorporatedMadryn Bioq SPV, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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