Term ended Feb 6, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 6, 2021
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jun 6, 2022.
Filed Feb 17, 2015 as application 14/624,553 · Granted May 1, 2018
Base term plus 62 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Feb 6, 2022
2001
2026
Clock starts
Dec 6, 2001
Dec 6, 2001
Term ended
Feb 6, 2022
Feb 6, 2022
Granted
May 1, 2018
May 1, 2018
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
62
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
9
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 62 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Dec 6, 2001, when application PCT/IL2001/001127, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 17, 2015) | Dec 6, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +62 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 6, 2022 | 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 | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Jun 6, 2022, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 6, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,147,419 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 8,679,029 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| Application 12/213,621 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,895,065 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 9,895,066 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 9,993,163 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 9,955,875 | this patent Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
| US 10,610,110 | Term ended Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 2015 Reel 35001, frame 138 | Krauss, Baruch Shlomo | Children's Medical Center Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 23, 2015 Reel 35001, frame 149 | Carlebach, Ephraim | Oridion Medical 1987 Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 62 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
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