Also listed on Minimally Invasive Devices, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 21, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 19, 2027
Held by Floshield, Inc.
Filed Jun 19, 2007 as application 11/765,340 · Granted Jun 9, 2015
Base term plus 1006 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2030
Clock starts
Jun 19, 2007
Jun 19, 2007
Term ends
Mar 21, 2030
Mar 21, 2030
Granted
Jun 9, 2015
Jun 9, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,006
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 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.
This patent's term runs 1006 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 this application, 11/765,340, was filed | Jun 19, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1006 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 21, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 21, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,050,036 | this patent Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 8,888,689 | Lapsed on the fee record 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2007 Reel 20126, frame 415 | Ward, Thomas J.; Huddleston, Matthew J.; Landis, Adam | Ward Engineering, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 16, 2007 Reel 20126, frame 453 | Ward Engineering, Inc. | Minimally Invasive Devices, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 16, 2007 Reel 20126, frame 309 | Poll, Wayne Lyle; Post, William J.; Crisafulli, Caroline M. | 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 33289, frame 352 | Poll, Wayne L.; Post, William J.; Crisafulli, Caroline M. | Minimally Invasive Devices, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 10, 2014 Reel 33289, frame 626 | Huddleston, Matthew J.; Ward, Thomas 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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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Mar 2030
Term ends Mar 21, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1006 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
115
later US patents cite this one
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