Lapsed Nov 28, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 21, 2031
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Medtimo Inc.
Filed Sep 21, 2015 as application 14/860,538 · Granted Nov 28, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 193 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Nov 28, 2025
2011
2031
Clock starts
Jan 21, 2011
Jan 21, 2011
No longer in force
Nov 28, 2025
Nov 28, 2025
Granted
Nov 28, 2017
Nov 28, 2017
Term would have run to
Jan 21, 2031
Jan 21, 2031
base term
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
193
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,351,862.
1 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.
13
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jan 21, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 193 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jan 21, 2011, when application PCT/US2011/022165, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 21, 2015) | Jan 21, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +193 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 2, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,351,862) | capped to Jan 21, 2031 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Nov 28, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 28, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2011/022165 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,740,927 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 9,351,862 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 9,827,128 | this patent Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 9,662,239 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 10,463,520 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| US 10,610,396 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 11,737,899 | In force Jul 2032 | Jul 2032 |
8 of 13 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2016 Reel 39821, frame 156 | Brister, Mark C.; Faucher, Paul D.; Drake, Neil R.; Rasdal, Andrew P.; Lake, Matthew S.; Markovic, Dubravka; Vandenberg, Amy D.l.; Llevares, Antonio C.; Nider, Josefina | Obalon Therapeutics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 6, 2021 Reel 57726, frame 716 | Obalon Therapeutics, Inc. | Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 24, 2024 Reel 70166, frame 882 | Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | Ascent Partners Fund LLC | Security Interest |
| Sep 23, 2025 Reel 72955, frame 766 | Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | Medtimo Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 193 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,351,862.
Citations
29
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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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