Term ends Nov 6, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 17, 2029
Held by Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
Filed Nov 17, 2009 as application 12/620,002 · Granted Apr 9, 2013
Base term plus 719 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2009
2031
Clock starts
Nov 17, 2009
Nov 17, 2009
Term ends
Nov 6, 2031
Nov 6, 2031
Granted
Apr 9, 2013
Apr 9, 2013
base term
patent term adjustment
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
719
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.
7
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 719 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 Nov 17, 2009, when this application, 12/620,002, was filed | Nov 17, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +719 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 6, 2031 | 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 6, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,414,570 | this patent Nov 2031 | Nov 2031 |
| US 8,551,083 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 9,993,294 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| Application 13/020,483 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,968,399 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 11,253,316 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 12,318,134 | In force no later than May 2031 | no later than May 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2009 Reel 23530, frame 908 | Turner, Paul F.; Youd, Thomas L. | BSD Medical Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 6, 2015 Reel 35366, frame 936 | BSD Medical Corporation | Perseon Corporation | Change of Name |
| Sep 14, 2016 Reel 39743, frame 656 | Perseon Corporation | Scion Medical Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 16, 2016 Reel 40057, frame 844 | Perseon Corporation | Scion Medical Technologies, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Address Previously Recorded on Reel 039743 Frame 0656. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| May 31, 2017 Reel 42550, frame 200 | Scion Medical Technologies, LLC | Perseon Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 15, 2019 Reel 48609, frame 886 | Perseon Corporation | Endocare, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 16, 2019 Reel 49760, frame 263 | Perseon Corporation | Endocare, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 24, 2021 Reel 56940, frame 233 | Endocare, Inc. | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2031
Term ends Nov 6, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 719 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
58
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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.