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Apparatus and Method for Providing Enhanced Heat Transfer from a Body

US 8,808,344 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 19, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Oct 4, 2010 as application 12/897,637 · Granted Aug 19, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 529 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 19, 2022
2006 2027
Clock starts
Apr 27, 2006
No longer in force
Aug 19, 2022
Granted
Aug 19, 2014
Term would have run to
Oct 8, 2027
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
529
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.
5
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 Oct 8, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 529 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 27, 2006, when application 11/413,564, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 4, 2010)Apr 27, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+529 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 8, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 19, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 19, 2022High confidence

This family

US 7,806,915In force
Apr 2029
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US 8,808,344this patent
Aug 2022
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US 11,311,414In force
Nov 2026
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3 of 5 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
Jan 17, 2020
Reel 51543, frame 619
Radiant Medical, Inc.Bay City Capital Fund IV L.P.Security Interest
Jan 17, 2020
Reel 51543, frame 547
Radiant Medical, Inc.Horizon Technology Funding Company LLCSecurity Interest
Jan 17, 2020
Reel 51543, frame 582
Horizon Technology Funding Company LLCBay City Capital Fund IV L.P.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 17, 2020
Reel 51543, frame 666
Radiant Medical, Inc.; Bay City Capital Fund IV L.P.Zoll Circulation, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 17, 2020
Reel 51627, frame 893
Scott, David J.; Brian, Ben F.; Wright, Lloyd F.; Chin, Leo A.; Hollmen, Edward W.; Seegars, Daniel W.; Logan, Mark A.Radiant Medical, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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