Term ends Feb 8, 2034 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Senorx, Inc.

Filed Sep 21, 2009 as application 12/586,449 · Granted May 3, 2016

Base term plus 1601 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Feb 8, 2034

2009 2034

Clock starts
Sep 21, 2009

Term ends
Feb 8, 2034

Granted
May 3, 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

1,601

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.

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 1601 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 Sep 21, 2009, when this application, 12/586,449, was filed	Sep 21, 2029	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+1601 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Feb 8, 2034	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	Feb 8, 2034	High confidence

This family

US 9,327,061	this patent Feb 2034	Feb 2034
Application PCT/US2009/005268	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 10,786,604	In force Sep 2032	Sep 2032
US 11,833,275	In force Jun 2031	Jun 2031

4 of 5 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 10, 2009 Reel 23635, frame 205	Govil, Amit; Jones, Michael L.; Lubock, Paul	Senorx, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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What's changing

Feb 2034

Term ends Feb 8, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 1601 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

808

later US patents cite this one

That is top 1% 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.

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