Term ended Apr 7, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 7, 2026
Filed Jan 29, 2014 as application 14/167,681 · Granted Jan 26, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Apr 7, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Apr 7, 2006
Apr 7, 2006
Term ended
Apr 7, 2026
Apr 7, 2026
Granted
Jan 26, 2016
Jan 26, 2016
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,702,926, to Apr 7, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
25
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Apr 7, 2006, when application PCT/US2006/012940, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 29, 2014) | Apr 7, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,702,926) | resolves to Apr 7, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Apr 7, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,002,965 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 8,702,926 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 9,244,078 | this patent Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 10,245,335 | In force Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| US 9,616,368 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 9,724,438 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2016/025262 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,226,728 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
8 of 25 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 27, 2014 Reel 32542, frame 139 | Beer, Greg; Wu, Huan-ping | Bayer Healthcare LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 23, 2016 Reel 37880, frame 604 | Bayer Healthcare LLC | Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,702,926, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2016 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
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