Also listed on Syneos Health US, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends May 14, 2027 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Adheris, LLC

Filed Jun 29, 2016 as application 15/196,914 · Granted Aug 8, 2017

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends May 14, 2027

2007 2027

Clock starts
May 14, 2007

Term ends
May 14, 2027

Granted
Aug 8, 2017

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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,405,493, to May 14, 2027. 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.

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. 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.

Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts May 14, 2007, when application 11/748,239, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 29, 2016)	May 14, 2027	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,405,493)	resolves to May 14, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	May 14, 2027	High confidence

This family

Application 60/822,880	Provisional application no patent term	no patent term
US 8,072,635	In force Oct 2030	Oct 2030
Application PCT/US2007/070962	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 8,531,714	In force May 2027	May 2027
US 9,524,375	In force May 2027	May 2027
US 9,405,493	In force May 2027	May 2027
US 9,727,700	this patent May 2027	May 2027

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
May 8, 2017 Reel 42432, frame 951	Roberts, Michael; Banfield, Simon	Inventiv Health, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 1, 2017 Reel 43470, frame 878	Inventiv Health, Inc.; Inc. Research, LLC; Addison Whitney, LLC; Adheris, LLC; Biosector 2 LLC; Blue Diesel, LLC; Inventiv Health Clinical, Inc.; Inventiv Health Consulting, Inc.; Chandler Chicco Agency, L.l.c.; Inventiv Health Public Relations, LLC; Gerbig, Snell/Weisheimer Advertising, LLC; Inventiv Health Communications, Inc.; Inventiv Health Research & Insights, LLC; Palio + Ignite, LLC; The Selva Group, LLC	Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch	Security Interest
Mar 16, 2019 Reel 48618, frame 626	Inventiv Health, Inc.	Syneos Health, Inc.	Change of Name
Mar 26, 2019 Reel 48702, frame 161	Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Successor Collateral Agent	Assignment of Security Interest in Intellectual Property Rights
Mar 26, 2019 Reel 48886, frame 294	Inventiv Health, Inc.	Syneos Health US, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 048618 Frame 0626. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Change of Name.
Nov 18, 2020 Reel 54460, frame 153	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A, as Collateral Agent	Syneos Health US, Inc.	Release of Security Interest in Specified Intellectual Property
Nov 23, 2020 Reel 54450, frame 458	Syneos Health US, Inc.	Adheris, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 1, 2021 Reel 56400, frame 117	Adheris, LLC	Partners for Growth VI, L.P.	Security Interest
Jul 10, 2025 Reel 71970, frame 513	Partners for Growth VI, L.P.	Adheris, LLC	Release of IP Security Agreement

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.

What's changing

May 2027

Term ends May 14, 2027. No further fees fall due before then

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,405,493, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2017 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.

Pharmacy Printer System and Method