Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 12, 2025 (Avenue Venture Opportunities Fund II, L.P.).
Term ends Nov 19, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 1, 2026
Held by Electrocore, Inc.
Filed Feb 10, 2011 as application 13/024,727 · Granted Jul 28, 2015
Base term plus 654 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2006
2026
Clock starts
Nov 1, 2006
Nov 1, 2006
Term ends
Nov 19, 2026
Nov 19, 2026
Granted
Jul 28, 2015
Jul 28, 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
654
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,676,330, US 8,868,177.
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.
169
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 654 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 2 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 Nov 1, 2006, when application 11/591,340, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 10, 2011) | Nov 1, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +654 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 16, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,676,330, US 8,868,177) | capped to Nov 19, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 19, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,747,324 | In force no later than Sep 2028 | no later than Sep 2028 |
| US 7,725,188 | In force no later than May 2028 | no later than May 2028 |
| Application 12/246,605 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,812,112 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Application 12/422,483 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,869,879 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,041,428 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| Application 12/652,302 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 169 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 28, 2011 Reel 27451, frame 705 | Simon, Bruce; Errico, Joseph P.; Raffle, John T. | Electrocore LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 9, 2023 Reel 63588, frame 812 | Electrocore, LLC | Electrocore, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Aug 12, 2025 Reel 72452, frame 559 | Electrocore, Inc. | Avenue Venture Opportunities Fund II, L.P. | Security 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
Nov 2026
Term ends Nov 19, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 654 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,676,330, US 8,868,177.
Citations
184
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.