Also listed on Safe Wire Holding, LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Nov 30, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 1, 2032
Held by Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
Filed Jul 31, 2013 as application 13/956,067 · Granted Jun 19, 2018
Base term plus 274 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Mar 1, 2012
Mar 1, 2012
Term ends
Nov 30, 2032
Nov 30, 2032
Granted
Jun 19, 2018
Jun 19, 2018
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
274
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 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.
2
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 274 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Mar 1, 2012, when application 13/409,483, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 31, 2013) | Mar 1, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +274 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 30, 2032 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 30, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,758,383 | In force Apr 2032 | Apr 2032 |
| US 9,999,444 | this patent Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 2014 Reel 32409, frame 517 | Geist, Wyatt Drake; Nunley, Pierce Dalton | Safe Wire Holdings, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 9, 2016 Reel 38045, frame 253 | Geist, Wyatt Drake; Nunley, Pierce Dalton | Safe Wire Holding, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Name Previously Recorded on Reel 032409 Frame 0517. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| May 18, 2016 Reel 38636, frame 487 | Safewire, LLC; Safe Wire Holding, LLC | Orthovita, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 1, 2023 Reel 65734, frame 863 | Orthovita, Inc. | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 7, 2023 Reel 65819, frame 377 | Orthovita, Inc. | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignment Execution Date from 11/8/2020 to 11/8/2023 Previously Recorded on Reel 065734 Frame 0863. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2032
Term ends Nov 30, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 274 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
16
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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