Lapsed Apr 22, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 8, 2025
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Jul 16, 2010 as application 12/838,260 · Granted Apr 22, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 441 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 22, 2022
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jul 8, 2005
Jul 8, 2005
No longer in force
Apr 22, 2022
Apr 22, 2022
Granted
Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014
Term would have run to
Sep 22, 2026
Sep 22, 2026
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
441
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
12
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 22, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 441 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jul 8, 2005, when application 11/177,503, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 16, 2010) | Jul 8, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +441 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 22, 2026 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Apr 22, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 22, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,606,362 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 8,620,436 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| Application PCT/US2007/072238 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,706,238 | this patent Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| US 9,314,617 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 9,308,371 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 9,037,249 | Term ended no later than Jul 2025 | no later than Jul 2025 |
| US 9,931,502 | Term ended no later than Jul 2025 | no later than Jul 2025 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2010 Reel 24700, frame 543 | Parramon, Jordi; Peterson, David K.l.; Griffith, Paul J. | Advanced Bionics Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 16, 2010 Reel 24701, frame 711 | Advanced Bionics Corporation | Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 441 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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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