Lapsed Jan 15, 2025 on the fee record · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 18, 2027
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Cortigent, Inc.
Filed Jun 24, 2011 as application 13/168,653 · Granted Jan 15, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 12 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 15, 2025
2007
2027
Clock starts
Oct 18, 2007
Oct 18, 2007
No longer in force
Jan 15, 2025
Jan 15, 2025
Granted
Jan 15, 2013
Jan 15, 2013
Term would have run to
Oct 30, 2027
Oct 30, 2027
base term
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
12
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,941,224, to Oct 30, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
5
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, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 12 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: Low. 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, 2007, when application 11/874,690, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 24, 2011); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 18, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +12 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 30, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,941,224) | resolves to Oct 30, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jan 15, 2025 | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 11874690 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 15, 2025 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,000,000 | In force no later than May 2028 | no later than May 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2007/081811 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,941,224 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 8,355,795 | this patent Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 10,105,263 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2011 Reel 26497, frame 556 | McClure, Kelly H; Roy, Arup; Greenberg, Robert J, M.D. | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 27, 2022 Reel 62230, frame 462 | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.; Vivani Medical, Inc. | Vivani Medical, Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
| Feb 3, 2023 Reel 62589, frame 681 | Vivani Medical, Inc. | Cortigent, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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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
Note
The 12 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,941,224, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2013 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.