Term ended Oct 13, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 13, 2026
Held by Pacesetter, Inc.
Filed Oct 19, 2011 as application 13/277,151 · Granted Oct 27, 2015
USPTO first gave this application the number US 8,886,318 and withdrew it before it issued. That number now leads here.
Base term plus 7 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Oct 13, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Oct 13, 2006
Oct 13, 2006
Term ended
Oct 13, 2026
Oct 13, 2026
Granted
Oct 27, 2015
Oct 27, 2015
base term
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
7
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 8,295,939.
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.
7
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 7 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Oct 13, 2006, when applications 11/549,603 and 11/549,605, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Oct 19, 2011) | Oct 13, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +7 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 20, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,295,939) | capped to Oct 13, 2026 | 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 | Oct 13, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,945,333 | In force Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| US 7,937,148 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 9,072,913 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,295,939 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,168,383 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2012/057776 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,788,053 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2012 Reel 28191, frame 109 | Jacobson, Peter M.; Ostroff, Alan; Ciciarelli, Timothy E. | Nanostim, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 20, 2015 Reel 36378, frame 830 | Nanostim, Inc. | Pacesetter, Inc. | Merger |
Sources
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Note
The 7 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 8,295,939.
Citations
411
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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