Term ended Jul 14, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 6, 2021
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Apr 27, 2026.
Filed Jun 23, 2008 as application 12/213,619 · Granted Mar 25, 2014
Base term plus 951 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 14, 2024
2001
2026
Clock starts
Dec 6, 2001
Dec 6, 2001
Term ended
Jul 14, 2024
Jul 14, 2024
Granted
Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014
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
951
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
9
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 951 days past its 20-year base term on 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 6, 2001, when application PCT/IL2001/001127, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 23, 2008) | Dec 6, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +951 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 14, 2024 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Apr 27, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 14, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,147,419 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 8,679,029 | this patent Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| Application 12/213,621 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,895,065 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 9,895,066 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 9,993,163 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 9,955,875 | Term ended Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
| US 10,610,110 | Term ended Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2009 Reel 22258, frame 465 | Krauss, Baruch Shlomo; Hampton, David Robert; Carlebach, Ephraim | Oridion Medical (1987) Ltd.; Children's Medical Center Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 15, 2009 reel/frame not recorded | Hampton, David Robert; Carlebach, Ephraim; Krauss, Baruch Shlomo | Oridion Medical (1987) Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 15, 2009 reel/frame not recorded | Hampton, David Robert; Carlebach, Ephraim; Krauss, Baruch Shlomo | Children's Medical Center Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 27, 2012 Reel 27612, frame 992 | Physio-Control International, Inc., F/K/A Medtronic Emergency Response Systems International, Inc., F/K/A Medtronic Physio-Control International, Inc., F/K/A Medtronic Physio-Control, Inc. | Physio-Control, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 9, 2012 Reel 27765, frame 861 | Physio-Control, Inc. | The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as *Collateral Trustee | Security Agreement |
| Feb 10, 2012 Reel 27763, frame 881 | Physio-Control, Inc. | Citibank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Jul 15, 2014 Reel 33315, frame 726 | Krauss, Bruno Shlomo | Children's Medical Center Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 15, 2014 Reel 33315, frame 773 | Carlebach, Ephraim | Oridion Medical 1987 Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 14, 2016 Reel 37519, frame 240 | The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. | Physio-Control, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 7, 2016 Reel 38376, frame 806 | Citibank, N.a. | Physio-Control, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
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