Term ended Jul 15, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 30, 2025
Held by Biosense Webster, Inc.
Filed Jan 5, 2011 as application 12/985,254 · Granted Dec 10, 2013
Base term plus 197 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 15, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2005
Dec 30, 2005
Term ended
Jul 15, 2026
Jul 15, 2026
Granted
Dec 10, 2013
Dec 10, 2013
base term
patent term adjustment
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
197
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 7,879,029, to Jul 15, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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 197 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Dec 30, 2005, when application 11/322,591, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 5, 2011) | Dec 30, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +197 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 15, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,879,029) | resolves to Jul 15, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 15, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,879,029 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| US 8,603,085 | this patent Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 9,226,793 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,510,893 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,814,524 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,231,780 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 11,213,346 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2011 Reel 25823, frame 461 | Jimenez, Eduardo | Biosense Webster, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 197 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 7,879,029, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
120
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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