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Methods of making a test sensor

US 9,625,411 In force
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Term ends Jan 4, 2027 · High confidence

Filed Mar 24, 2014 as application 14/223,654 · Granted Apr 18, 2017
Base term plus 156 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2006 2027
Clock starts
Aug 1, 2006
Term ends
Jan 4, 2027
Granted
Apr 18, 2017
base term patent term adjustment fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
156
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 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.
9
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 156 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 2 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 1, 2006, when application 11/461,725, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 24, 2014)Aug 1, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+156 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 4, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 4, 2027High confidence

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US 7,866,026Term ended
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Application PCT/US2007/016554PCT application
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US 7,895,740Term ended
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US 7,918,012Term ended
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US 8,375,574Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2021
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US 7,996,988In force
May 2027
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US 8,677,611In force
Jan 2027
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US 9,625,411this patent
Jan 2027
Jan 2027
8 of 9 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
Mar 26, 2014
Reel 32536, frame 400
Arseniev, Alexey; Cherdron, Markus; Barwicki, Marek; Stefanov, TzankoSAP AGAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 17, 2014
Reel 32703, frame 397
Wang, Yi; Feldman, Benjamin J.Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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