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Heart Monitoring System Usable with a Smartphone or Computer

US 9,649,042 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 24, 2026 (Symbiotic Capital Agency LLC, as Administrative and Collateral Agent).

Term ends Feb 2, 2031 · High confidence

Filed Aug 12, 2013 as application 13/964,490 · Granted May 16, 2017
Base term plus 239 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2010 2031
Clock starts
Jun 8, 2010
Term ends
Feb 2, 2031
Granted
May 16, 2017
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
239
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,509,882, to Feb 2, 2031. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
18
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 239 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 8, 2010, when application 12/796,188, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 12, 2013)Jun 8, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+239 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 2, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,509,882)resolves to Feb 2, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 2, 2031High confidence

This family

US 8,509,882In force
Feb 2031
Feb 2031
Application 13/108,738Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application PCT/US2011/039445PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application PCT/US2011/053708PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,301,232In force
Jun 2030
Jun 2030
US 9,649,042this patent
Feb 2031
Feb 2031
US 9,351,654In force
Mar 2031
Mar 2031
US 9,833,158In force
Jun 2030
Jun 2030
8 of 18 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
Jan 2, 2014
Reel 31880, frame 784
Aliveusa, Inc.Alivecor, Inc.Change of Name
Jan 2, 2014
Reel 31881, frame 437
Albert, David; Satchwell, Bruce Richard; Barnett, Kim NormanAliveusa LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 2, 2014
Reel 31882, frame 103
Aliveusa LLCAliveusa Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 24, 2026
Reel 75813, frame 343
Alivecor, Inc.Symbiotic Capital Agency LLC, as Administrative and Collateral AgentSecurity 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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