Term ends Aug 25, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 10, 2030
Held by Broncus Medical Inc.
Filed Aug 13, 2013 as application 13/965,886 · Granted Apr 12, 2016
Base term plus 107 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
May 10, 2010
May 10, 2010
Term ends
Aug 25, 2030
Aug 25, 2030
Granted
Apr 12, 2016
Apr 12, 2016
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
107
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 107 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 May 10, 2010, when application 12/776,978, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 13, 2013) | May 10, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +107 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 25, 2030 | 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 | Aug 25, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,517,955 | In force Jul 2031 | Jul 2031 |
| US 9,307,960 | this patent Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| US 9,907,543 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| US 10,792,022 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2013 Reel 31001, frame 4 | Keast, Thomas M.; Weiss, Aaron M.; Gwerder, Eric J.; Schwardt, Jeffrey; Roschak, Edmund J. | Broncus Medical Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 13, 2013 Reel 31001, frame 77 | Broncus Technologies, Inc. | Broncus Medical Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 9, 2014 Reel 31960, frame 567 | Broncus Medical Inc. | Lifetech Scientific (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.; Dinova Venture Partners LP II, L.P.; Tip-Broncus Limited; Aether Corporate Limited | Security Agreement |
| Jan 9, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Broncus Medical Inc. | Lifetech Scientific (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. | Security Agreement |
| Jan 9, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Broncus Medical Inc. | Dinova Venture Partners LP II, L.P. | Security Agreement |
| Jan 9, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Broncus Medical Inc. | Tip-Broncus Limited | Security Agreement |
| Jan 9, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Broncus Medical Inc. | Aether Corporate Limited | Security Agreement |
| May 23, 2014 Reel 33012, frame 784 | Lifetech Scientific (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.; Dinova Venture Partners LP II, L.P.; Tip-Broncus Limited; Aether Corporate Limited | Broncus Medical Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 27, 2020 Reel 53623, frame 185 | Keast, Thomas M.; Weiss, Aaron M.; Gwerder, Eric J.; Schwardt, Jeffrey; Roschak, Edmund J. | Broncus Technologies, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 031001 Frame: 0004. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment . |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2030
Term ends Aug 25, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 107 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
19
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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
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.