Term ends Jan 22, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 23, 2030
Held by Apollo Endosurgery US, Inc.
Filed Mar 29, 2012 as application 13/386,638 · Granted Jun 9, 2015
Base term plus 548 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2032
Clock starts
Jul 23, 2010
Jul 23, 2010
Term ends
Jan 22, 2032
Jan 22, 2032
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
548
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 548 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 Jul 23, 2010, when application PCT/US2010/043136, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 29, 2012) | Jul 23, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +548 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 22, 2032 | 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 | Jan 22, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,050,174 | this patent Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| US 9,987,470 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| Application 15/971,625 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
3 of 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2012 Reel 27958, frame 428 | Pecor, Robert; Kwok, Jason; Ashby, Mark | Reshape Medical, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 30, 2018 Reel 46380, frame 339 | Reshape Medical, Inc. | Nixon Susidiary Holdings LLC | Merger |
| Mar 30, 2018 Reel 46380, frame 664 | Nixon Susidiary Holdings LLC | Reshape Medical LLC | Change of Name |
| Aug 23, 2019 Reel 50156, frame 236 | Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 23, 2021 Reel 58980, frame 199 | Apollo Endosurgery, Inc.; Apollo Endosurgery US, Inc. (F/K/A Lpath, Inc.) | Innovatus Life Sciences Lending Fund I, LP | Security Interest |
| Apr 5, 2023 Reel 63264, frame 46 | Apollo Endosurgery, Inc.; Apollo Endosurgery US, Inc.; Apollo Endosurgery International, LLC; Lpath Therapeutics, Inc. | Innovatus Life Sciences Lending Fund I, LP | Termination and Release of Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Dec 29, 2023 Reel 66132, frame 801 | Apollo Endosurgery US, Inc. | Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 29, 2023 Reel 66132, frame 914 | Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. | Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 22, 2024 Reel 66660, frame 792 | Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. | Apollo Endosurgery US, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 5, 2024 Reel 66739, frame 804 | Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. | Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Expunged Property 12406874 Previously Recorded at Reel: 066132 Frame: 0914. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment . |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2032
Term ends Jan 22, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 548 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
48
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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