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Implantation of Repair Chords in the Heart

US 8,500,800 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 6, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Sep 21, 2009 as application 12/563,930 · Granted Aug 6, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 809 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 6, 2025
2008 2031
Clock starts
Dec 22, 2008
No longer in force
Aug 6, 2025
Granted
Aug 6, 2013
Term would have run to
Mar 11, 2031
base term patent term adjustment 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
809
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
29
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 Mar 11, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 809 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 22, 2008, when application 12/341,960, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 21, 2009)Dec 22, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+809 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 11, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 6, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 6, 2025High confidence

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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
Dec 8, 2009
Reel 23619, frame 832
Maisano, Francesco; Miller, Eran; Cabiri, Oz; Herman, Yaron; Weitzman, Yoseph; Gross, YossiValtech Cardio, Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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