Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 11, 2026 (Soryn IP Fund II, L.P.).
Term ends Oct 31, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 31, 2034
Held by Anonos Innovations LLC
Filed Apr 10, 2017 as application 15/483,997 · Granted Aug 7, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Oct 31, 2014
Oct 31, 2014
Term ends
Oct 31, 2034
Oct 31, 2034
Granted
Aug 7, 2018
Aug 7, 2018
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 10,572,684, US 9,619,669, to Oct 31, 2034. 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.
16
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: 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 Oct 31, 2014, when applications 14/529,960 and 14/530,304, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Apr 10, 2017) | Oct 31, 2034 | 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 10,572,684, US 9,619,669) | resolves to Oct 31, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Oct 31, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2014/063520 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,087,215 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,087,216 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,129,133 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,361,481 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2016/016143 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,619,669 | In force (reinstated) Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,043,035 | this patent Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2017 Reel 42373, frame 684 | Lafever, Malcolm Gary; Myerson, Ted N.; Mason, Steven; Wetherbee, Colin W. | Anonos Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 2, 2022 Reel 60978, frame 927 | Anonos Inc. | Anonos IP LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 12, 2022 Reel 61395, frame 457 | Anonos IP LLC | Ankura Trust Company, LLC | Security Interest |
| Oct 3, 2025 Reel 72997, frame 822 | Ankura Trust Company, LLC | Sonona LLC | Assignment of Intellectual Property |
| Feb 2, 2026 Reel 73661, frame 128 | Sonona LLC | Anonos Technologies LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 4, 2026 Reel 73688, frame 692 | Anonos Technologies LLC | Anonos Innovations LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 8, 2026 Reel 74607, frame 340 | Ankura Trust Company, LLC | Anonos IP LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 11, 2026 Reel 76439, frame 183 | Sonona LLC; Anonos Innovations LLC; Anonos Technologies LLC | Soryn IP Fund II, L.P.; Soryn IP Parallel Fund II, L.P.; Soryn IP Fund II Evergreen Fund, L.P. | Security Agreement |
| Sep 11, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | Anonos Innovations LLC; Anonos Technologies LLC; Sonona LLC | Soryn IP Fund II, L.P. | Security Agreement |
| Sep 11, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | Anonos Innovations LLC; Anonos Technologies LLC; Sonona LLC | Soryn IP Parallel Fund II, L.P. | Security Agreement |
| Sep 11, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | Anonos Innovations LLC; Anonos Technologies LLC; Sonona LLC | Soryn IP Fund II Evergreen Fund, L.P. | Security Agreement |
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What's changing
Oct 2034
Term ends Oct 31, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,572,684, US 9,619,669, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
379
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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