Term ended Jul 24, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 5, 2022
Held by Avanos Medical Sales, LLC
Filed Apr 14, 2005 as application 11/105,527 · Granted Nov 11, 2014
Base term plus 506 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 24, 2023
2002
2026
Clock starts
Mar 5, 2002
Mar 5, 2002
Term ended
Jul 24, 2023
Jul 24, 2023
Granted
Nov 11, 2014
Nov 11, 2014
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
506
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
40
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 506 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Mar 5, 2002, when application 10/087,856, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 14, 2005) | Mar 5, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +506 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 24, 2023 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 24, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,896,675 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| Application 10/382,836 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/853,126 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,163,536 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 7,593,778 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 8,882,755 | this patent Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| Application 11/105,490 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,294,127 | Term ended Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
8 of 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2005 Reel 16486, frame 925 | Leung, Mark; Shah, Krishan; Conquergood, Laura; Chandran, Subashini | Baylis Medical Company Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 10, 2010 Reel 23915, frame 252 | Baylis Medical Company Inc. | Kimberly-Clark Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 16, 2014 Reel 34515, frame 310 | Kimberly-Clark Inc. | Avent Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 13, 2015 Reel 34754, frame 1 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Avent, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 6, 2015 Reel 35375, frame 867 | Avent, Inc. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Jan 23, 2019 Reel 48173, frame 137 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Citibank, N.a. | Intellectual Property Security Interest Assignment Agreement |
| Nov 1, 2019 Reel 50887, frame 684 | Avent, Inc. | Avanos Medical Sales, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 24, 2022 Reel 60441, frame 445 | Avent, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Jun 30, 2022 Reel 60557, frame 62 | Citibank, N.a. | Avent, Inc.; Avanos Medical Sales, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 30, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | Citibank, N.a. | Avent, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 30, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | Citibank, N.a. | Avanos Medical Sales, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 28, 2026 Reel 76077, frame 108 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Avent, Inc.; Avanos Medical Sales, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 28, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Avent, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 28, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Avanos Medical Sales, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Note
The 506 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
225
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.
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