Also listed on Davol, Inc. (a C.R. Bard Company), an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jan 22, 2029 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 27, 2027
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Davol Inc.
Filed Feb 19, 2013 as application 13/770,637 · Granted Jan 9, 2018
Base term plus 422 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2029
Clock starts
Nov 27, 2007
Nov 27, 2007
Term ends
Jan 22, 2029
Jan 22, 2029
Granted
Jan 9, 2018
Jan 9, 2018
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
422
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 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.
3
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 422 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 2 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 Nov 27, 2007, when application PCT/IL2007/001463, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 19, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 27, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +422 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 22, 2029 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 22, 2029 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,861,462 | this patent Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
1 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 2016 Reel 38250, frame 246 | Sholev, Mordehai; Szold, Amir; Matter, Ibrahim; Tamir, Ziv | Surgical Structure Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 12, 2016 Reel 38250, frame 275 | Surgical Structures, Ltd. | Davol Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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.
What's changing
Jan 2029
Term ends Jan 22, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 422 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
36
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2018 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.