Lapsed Jul 9, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 26, 2026
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by VB Spine LLC
Filed Dec 5, 2011 as application 13/311,487 · Granted Jul 9, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jul 9, 2025
2006
2026
Clock starts
Sep 26, 2006
Sep 26, 2006
No longer in force
Jul 9, 2025
Jul 9, 2025
Granted
Jul 9, 2013
Jul 9, 2013
Term would have run to
Sep 26, 2026
Sep 26, 2026
base term
after the term ends
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,454,695, to Sep 26, 2026. 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.
10
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 Sep 26, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no 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: 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 Sep 26, 2006, when application 11/535,432, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 5, 2011) | Sep 26, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,454,695) | resolves to Sep 26, 2026, 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 Jul 9, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 9, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,985,256 | In force no later than May 2030 | no later than May 2030 |
| US 8,070,813 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| Application 11/981,452 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,394,143 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 8,454,695 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 8,480,741 | this patent Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 9,028,550 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 9,814,600 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
8 of 10 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 2011 Reel 27340, frame 654 | Innvotec Surgical, Inc. | Coalign Innovations, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 6, 2011 Reel 27341, frame 650 | Grotz, Thomas, M.D.; Pretti, Rudy | Innvotec Surgical, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 19, 2015 Reel 35667, frame 165 | Coalign Innovations, Inc. | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | Merger |
| May 19, 2025 Reel 71154, frame 755 | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | VB Spine US Opco LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 16, 2025 Reel 71682, frame 116 | K2M, Inc.; VB Spine US Opco LLC; VB Spine LLC | Ankura Trust Company, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Aug 8, 2025 Reel 72340, frame 397 | K2M, Inc.; VB Spine US Opco LLC | Texas Capital Bank, As Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jun 23, 2026 Reel 75812, frame 865 | VB Spine US Opco LLC | VB Spine LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,454,695, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
108
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.
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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