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Current Output Architecture for an Implantable Stimulator Device

US 9,314,617 Term ended
OverviewFamilySources & methods

Term ended Jul 8, 2025 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 9,037,249), so the cap could be lower.

Filed Dec 6, 2013 as application 14/099,721 · Granted Apr 19, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Jul 8, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Jul 8, 2005
Term ended
Jul 8, 2025
Granted
Apr 19, 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 9,037,249, to Jul 8, 2025. 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.
12
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: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 8, 2005, when application 11/177,503, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 6, 2013)Jul 8, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,037,249)resolves to Jul 8, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no changeMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 8, 2025Medium confidence

This family

US 8,606,362In force
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Jul 2030
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Application PCT/US2007/072238PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,706,238Lapsed on the fee record
Apr 2022
Apr 2022
US 9,314,617this patent
Jul 2025
Jul 2025
US 9,308,371Term ended
Jul 2025
Jul 2025
US 9,037,249Term ended
no later than Jul 2025
no later than Jul 2025
US 9,931,502Term ended
no later than Jul 2025
no later than Jul 2025
8 of 12 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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