Lapsed Nov 18, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 19, 2027
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Floshield, Inc.
Filed Dec 9, 2009 as application 12/653,148 · Granted Nov 18, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 967 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 18, 2022
2007
2030
Clock starts
Jun 19, 2007
Jun 19, 2007
No longer in force
Nov 18, 2022
Nov 18, 2022
Granted
Nov 18, 2014
Nov 18, 2014
Term would have run to
Feb 10, 2030
Feb 10, 2030
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
967
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.
4
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 Feb 10, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 967 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jun 19, 2007, when application 11/765,340, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 9, 2009) | Jun 19, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +967 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 10, 2030 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Nov 18, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 18, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,050,036 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 8,888,689 | this patent Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 10,231,609 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 10,398,290 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
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 12, 2010 Reel 24236, frame 420 | Poll, Wayne L.; Huddleston, Matthew J.; Crisafulli, Caroline M.; Landis, Adam; Drach, Gregory P. | Minimally Invasive Devices, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 10, 2014 Reel 33289, frame 792 | Minimally Invasive Devices, LLC | Minimally Invasive Devices, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 10, 2014 Reel 33290, frame 91 | Ward Engineering, Inc. | Minimally Invasive Devices, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 10, 2014 Reel 33288, frame 401 | Poll, Wayne L.; Crisafulli, Caroline M.; Drach, Gregory P. | Minimally Invasive Devices, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 10, 2014 Reel 33288, frame 811 | Huddleston, Matthew J.; Landis, Adam | Ward Engineering, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 12, 2016 Reel 40709, frame 284 | Minimally Invasive Devices, Inc. | Pacific Western Bank | Security Interest |
| Oct 13, 2017 Reel 43864, frame 814 | Minimally Invasive Devices, Inc. | Floshield, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 967 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
89
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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