Term ends Oct 9, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 9, 2033
Held by W74 Technology, LLC
Filed Oct 20, 2017 as application 15/789,867 · Granted Aug 21, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013
Term ends
Oct 9, 2033
Oct 9, 2033
Granted
Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 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.
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.
23
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. 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 9, 2013, when application 14/050,332, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 20, 2017) | Oct 9, 2033 | 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 | 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 | Oct 9, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 13/652,458 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 13/685,698 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 14/050,332 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/426,022 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 10,057,400 | this patent Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| US 10,051,103 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| Application 15/925,737 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 10,250,734 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 2023 Reel 62925, frame 546 | Majen Tech, LLC | W74 Technology, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2033
Term ends Oct 9, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
29
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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.