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

Term ends Jan 18, 2031 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 9,579,435), so the cap could be lower.

Held by Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Filed Sep 28, 2016 as application 15/278,851 · Granted Dec 5, 2017

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jan 18, 2031

2011 2031

Clock starts
Jan 18, 2011

Term ends
Jan 18, 2031

Granted
Dec 5, 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 8,864,644, US 9,579,435, to Jan 18, 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.

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 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 18, 2011, when application 13/008,514, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 28, 2016)	Jan 18, 2031	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 8,864,644, US 9,579,435)	resolves to Jan 18, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no change	Medium 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	Jan 18, 2031	Medium confidence

This family

US 8,864,644	In force Jan 2031	Jan 2031
US 9,579,435	In force no later than Jan 2031	no later than Jan 2031
US 9,833,552	this patent Jan 2031	Jan 2031
US 10,124,099	In force no later than Jan 2031	no later than Jan 2031
US 10,342,907	In force no later than Jan 2031	no later than Jan 2031

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
Nov 22, 2024 Reel 69433, frame 523	Heartware, Inc.	Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 22, 2026 Reel 76108, frame 7	Yomtov, Barry M.	Heartware, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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What's changing

Jan 2031

Term ends Jan 18, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,864,644, US 9,579,435, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

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

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.

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