Term ends Feb 24, 2026 · Medium confidence
Statutory term ends Jan 31, 2025
Base term plus 937 days of PTA · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20y-from-earliest-nonprovisional
Expired Feb 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jan 31, 2005
Jan 31, 2005
Granted
Mar 26, 2013
Mar 26, 2013
Term ends
Feb 24, 2026
Feb 24, 2026
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Computed Sep 1, 2026 · countdowns run from that date · how we know
937
Days of PTA
30
Applications in this family
This patent's term runs 937 days past the statutory base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees are paid, so nothing but the term itself will end it. Confidence: Medium. from the record
How this date was computed
Every step shows its rule, its 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, 20y-from-earliest-nonprovisional | Clock starts Jan 31, 2005 | Jan 31, 2025 | High |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High |
| Patent term adjustment | +937 days, USPTO PTA record | Aug 26, 2027 | High |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,314,451) | capped to Feb 24, 2026 | Medium |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | expired-term | High |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 24, 2026 | Medium |
The computation, verbatim
base=20y-from-earliest-nonprovisional: 2005-01-31+20y | =2025-01-31 | PTA+937d=2027-08-26 | PTE:none | TD:approved | paid 4yr@2016-03-27,8yr@2020-03-26,12yr@2024-08-20 | status=expired-term@2026-02-24 | TD-cap from disclaimer doc (refs 7314451) -> 2026-02-24
terminal disclaimer approved - true expiration may be capped to family sibling
This family
| US 7,077,810 | expired-term | Jan 2025 |
| US 7,314,451 | expired-term | Feb 2026 |
| US 8,376,954 | in-force | Feb 2030 |
| Application 11/552,872 | abandoned | not computed |
| Application 11/755,066 | abandoned | not computed |
| US 8,403,865 | this patent | Feb 2026 |
| US 8,517,953 | expired-term | May 2026 |
| US 8,491,492 | expired-term | Jan 2025 |
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 4, 2007 reel/frame not recorded | Gross, Yosef; Halperin, Avner; Lange, Daniel H.; Pinhas, Izhak | Earlysense Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 10, 2017 Reel 44345, frame 219 | Earlysense Ltd. | Kreos Capital V (EXPERT Fund) L.P. | Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2019 Reel 49425, frame 725 | Kreos Capital V (EXPERT Fund) L.P. | Earlysense Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 23, 2019 Reel 49827, frame 878 | Earlysense Ltd. | Kreos Capital VI (EXPERT Fund) L.P. | Security Interest |
| Feb 11, 2021 Reel 55238, frame 809 | Kreos Capital VI (EXPERT Fund) LP | Earlysense Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 11, 2021 Reel 55238, frame 855 | Earlysense Ltd. | Welch Allyn, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 12, 2021 Reel 55248, frame 627 | Welch Allyn, Inc. | Hill-Rom Services, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 937 days of PTA are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,314,451.
Citations
133
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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