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Methods for Delivering Energy into a Target Tissue of a Body

US 8,721,632 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed May 13, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Sep 8, 2009 as application 12/555,635 · Granted May 13, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 843 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 13, 2022
2009 2031
Clock starts
Sep 8, 2009
No longer in force
May 13, 2022
Granted
May 13, 2014
Term would have run to
Dec 30, 2031
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
843
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.
10
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 Dec 30, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 843 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 8, 2009, when this application, 12/555,635, was filedSep 8, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+843 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 30, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 13, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 13, 2022High confidence

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US 9,924,992Lapsed on the fee record
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US 8,721,632this patent
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US 10,548,653In force
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US 10,595,925Lapsed on the fee record
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US 11,284,932In force
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US 11,179,187In force
no later than Feb 2029
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US 11,478,291In force
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US 11,141,210In force
no later than Feb 2029
no later than Feb 2029
8 of 10 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
Apr 27, 2010
Reel 24297, frame 544
Hoey, Michael; Shadduck, John H.Tsunami Medtech LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

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