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Optimized Drug-Eluting Stent Assembly Methods

US 9,526,644 In force, term unresolved
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends no later than Nov 29, 2027 · Medium confidence

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Filed Sep 11, 2015 as application 14/851,882 · Granted Dec 27, 2016
Base term plus 8 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2007 2027
Clock starts
Nov 21, 2007
Ends no later than
Nov 29, 2027
Granted
Dec 27, 2016
base term 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
8
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
10
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 8 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Nov 21, 2007, when application PCT/IL2007/001442, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 11, 2015)Nov 21, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+8 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 29, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Nov 29, 2027Medium confidence

This family

Application 12/513,851Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 10,070,976In force
Nov 2027
Nov 2027
US 9,132,003In force
Nov 2027
Nov 2027
US 9,782,281In force
Nov 2027
Nov 2027
US 9,526,644this patent
no later than Nov 2027
no later than Nov 2027
US 11,051,959Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
US 10,406,006In force
no later than Nov 2028
no later than Nov 2028
US 10,406,008In force
Nov 2027
Nov 2027
8 of 10 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Sep 11, 2015
Reel 36545, frame 728
Bar, Eli; Holzer, Asher; Paz, OfirInspiremd, Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 14, 2016
Reel 38993, frame 533
Inspire M.D Ltd.Hercules Capital, Inc.Security Agreement
Jun 8, 2017
Reel 42654, frame 234
Hercules Capital, Inc.Inspiremd, Ltd.Release of Security 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.

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