Collateral for a security interest recorded May 31, 2024 (Perceptive Credit Holdings IV, LP).
Lapsed Oct 14, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 10, 2024
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.
Held by Spinal Elements, Inc.
Filed Dec 3, 2010 as application 12/960,309 · Granted Oct 14, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 865 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 14, 2026
2004
2026
Clock starts
Jun 10, 2004
Jun 10, 2004
No longer in force
Oct 14, 2026
Oct 14, 2026
Granted
Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014
Term would have run to
Oct 23, 2026
Oct 23, 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
865
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,846,183, to Oct 23, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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 Oct 23, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 865 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: Low. 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 Jun 10, 2004, when application 10/865,073, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 3, 2010) | Jun 10, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +865 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 23, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,846,183) | resolves to Oct 23, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case" | lapsed Oct 14, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 14, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,846,183 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 9,504,583 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 7,998,172 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 8,858,597 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,998,953 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 8,740,942 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 8,882,804 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 10,085,776 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 2012 Reel 29421, frame 985 | Blain, Jason | Spinal Elements, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 9, 2014 Reel 33702, frame 650 | Blain, Jason | Spinal Elements, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 5, 2015 Reel 35570, frame 411 | Spinal Elements, Inc. (Formerly, Quantum Orthopedics Inc.) | Comerica Bank | Security Interest |
| Apr 13, 2017 Reel 42247, frame 572 | Spinal Elements, Inc. | Antares Capital LP, as Agent | Security Interest |
| Apr 18, 2017 Reel 42369, frame 295 | Spinal Elements, Inc. | Cortland Capital Market Services LLC, as Agent | Security Interest |
| May 26, 2017 Reel 42589, frame 492 | Comerica Bank | Spinal Elements Inc. Formerly Known as Quantum Orthopedics Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 10, 2020 Reel 52372, frame 207 | Spinal Elements, Inc. | Amendia, Inc. | Merger |
| Apr 17, 2020 Reel 52919, frame 70 | Amendia, Inc. | Spinal Elements, Inc. | Change of Name |
| May 31, 2024 Reel 67596, frame 295 | Spinal Elements, Inc.; Custom Spine Acquisition, Inc.; Omni Acquisition Inc. | Perceptive Credit Holdings IV, LP | Security Interest |
| Jun 3, 2024 Reel 67605, frame 626 | Antares Capital LP, as Administrative Agent | Spinal Elements, Inc. (F.K.A. Amendia, Inc.) | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 3, 2024 Reel 67605, frame 676 | Cortland Capital Market Services LLC, as Agent | Spinal Elements, Inc. (F.K.A. Amendia, Inc.) | Release of Security Interest |
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Note
The 865 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,846,183, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
115
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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