Term ended May 6, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 20, 2022
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Apr 8, 2024.
Held by P Tech, LLC
Filed Aug 8, 2013 as application 13/962,269 · Granted Mar 1, 2016
Base term plus 47 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 6, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Mar 20, 2002
Mar 20, 2002
Term ended
May 6, 2022
May 6, 2022
Granted
Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016
base term
patent term adjustment
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
47
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
18
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 47 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Mar 20, 2002, when application 10/102,413, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 8, 2013) | Mar 20, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +47 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 6, 2022 | 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 | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Apr 8, 2024, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 6, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,155,544 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 9,192,395 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 9,149,281 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 9,585,725 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 9,486,227 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 9,271,741 | this patent May 2022 | May 2022 |
| US 9,271,779 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 10,265,128 | Term ended Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
8 of 18 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 31, 2014 Reel 34607, frame 83 | Bonutti, Peter | P Tech, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 47 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above 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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