Term ended Oct 18, 2026 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by SenoRx, Inc.

Filed Jun 30, 2015 as application 14/755,244 · Granted Sep 5, 2017

Base term plus 149 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Oct 18, 2026

2006 2026

Clock starts
May 22, 2006

Term ended
Oct 18, 2026

Granted
Sep 5, 2017

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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

149

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 9,095,325, to Oct 18, 2026. 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 runs 149 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. 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 22, 2006, when application 11/438,955, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 30, 2015)	May 22, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+149 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Oct 18, 2026	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,095,325)	resolves to Oct 18, 2026, 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	term ended	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Oct 18, 2026	High confidence

This family

US 9,095,325	In force Dec 2029	Dec 2029
Application PCT/US2006/019959	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 8,641,640	In force Dec 2029	Dec 2029
US 9,750,487	this patent Oct 2026	Oct 2026
US 10,478,161	In force Feb 2027	Feb 2027
US 11,426,149	Term ended Oct 2026	Oct 2026

The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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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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What's changing

Note

The 149 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,095,325, 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.

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