Also listed on Ablation Frontiers, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 12, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 22, 2026
Filed May 22, 2006 as application 11/438,678 · Granted Feb 25, 2014
Base term plus 874 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2028
Clock starts
May 22, 2006
May 22, 2006
Term ends
Oct 12, 2028
Oct 12, 2028
Granted
Feb 25, 2014
Feb 25, 2014
base term
patent term adjustment
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
874
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.
2
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 874 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 May 22, 2006, when this application, 11/438,678, was filed | May 22, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +874 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 12, 2028 | 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 | Oct 12, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,657,814 | this patent Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| Application 14/161,811 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 22, 2006 Reel 18685, frame 652 | Werneth, Randell L.; Flaherty, J. Christopher; Oral, Hakan; Morady, Fred; Roman, Ricardo David; Sherman, Marshall L. | Ablation Frontiers, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 6, 2009 Reel 23471, frame 616 | Ablation Frontiers, Inc. | Medtronic Ablation Frontiers, Inc. | Merger |
| Nov 6, 2009 Reel 23471, frame 630 | Medtronic Ablation Frontiers, Inc. | Medtronic Ablation Frontiers Technologies LLC | Change of Name |
| Nov 6, 2009 Reel 23471, frame 636 | Medtronic Ablation Frontiers Technologies LLC | Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC | Name Correction |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Oct 2028
Term ends Oct 12, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 874 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2,033
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2014 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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