Term ends Dec 23, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 1, 2029
Held by Shine Technologies, LLC
Filed Jan 12, 2011 as application 12/990,758 · Granted Aug 15, 2017
Base term plus 1332 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2009
2032
Clock starts
May 1, 2009
May 1, 2009
Term ends
Dec 23, 2032
Dec 23, 2032
Granted
Aug 15, 2017
Aug 15, 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
1,332
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.
7
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 1332 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 May 1, 2009, when application PCT/US2009/042587, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 12, 2011) | May 1, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1332 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 23, 2032 | 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 | Dec 23, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 61/050,096 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2009/042587 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,734,926 | this patent Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| US 11,830,637 | In force May 2029 | May 2029 |
| US 12,444,515 | In force no later than Mar 2030 | no later than Mar 2030 |
| Application 17/722,164 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/489,707 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 29, 2010 Reel 25552, frame 698 | Piefer, Gregory | Phoenix Nuclear Labs LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 4, 2011 Reel 25577, frame 834 | Phoenix Nuclear Labs LLC | Shine Medical Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 20, 2018 Reel 47555, frame 830 | Shine Medical Technologies, Inc. | Deerfield Management Company, L.p. | Security Interest |
| Jan 11, 2021 Reel 54960, frame 567 | Shine Medical Technologies, Inc. | Shine Medical Technologies, LLC | Certificate of Conversion and Change of Name |
| Oct 15, 2021 Reel 57827, frame 843 | Shine Medical Technologies, LLC | Shine Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Dec 2032
Term ends Dec 23, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1332 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
44
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.