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Baroreflex Modulation Using Light-Based Stimulation

US 8,715,327 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 31, 2022 (Innovatus Life Sciences Lending Fund I, LP).

Lapsed May 6, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by CVRX, Inc.
Filed Apr 13, 2010 as application 12/798,966 · Granted May 6, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 824 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 6, 2026
2010 2032
Clock starts
Apr 13, 2010
No longer in force
May 6, 2026
Granted
May 6, 2014
Term would have run to
Jul 15, 2032
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
824
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.
27
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 Jul 15, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 824 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 Apr 13, 2010, when this application, 12/798,966, was filedApr 13, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+824 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 15, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 6, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 6, 2026High confidence

This family

US 7,395,119Term ended
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
Application PCT/US2006/019470PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 11/836,035Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,835,797In force
Sep 2028
Sep 2028
Application 12/035,865Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,116,873In force
Jul 2029
Jul 2029
US 8,326,430In force
Sep 2030
Sep 2030
US 8,715,327this patent
May 2026
May 2026
8 of 27 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 1, 2010
Reel 24623, frame 479
Lovett, Eric G.CVRX, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 20, 2012
Reel 27890, frame 427
CVRX, Inc.CVRX, Inc.Confirmatory Assignment
Mar 13, 2014
Reel 32440, frame 231
Lovett, Eric G.; Ludwig, KipCVRX, Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Inadvertent Omission of Inventor Kip Ludwig from Originally Filed Recordation Cover Sheet Previously Recorded on Reel 024623 Frame 0479. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Remainder of the Information as Recorded in the Original Assignment.
Oct 31, 2022
Reel 61824, frame 238
CVRX, Inc.Innovatus Life Sciences Lending Fund I, LPSecurity Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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