Collateral for a security interest recorded May 1, 2024 (Advantage Capital Management LLC, as Adminstrative Agent).

Term ends May 7, 2033 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Inkling Systems, Inc.

Filed Mar 9, 2016 as application 15/065,698 · Granted Jan 1, 2019

Base term plus 475 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends May 7, 2033

2012 2033

Clock starts
Jan 18, 2012

Term ends
May 7, 2033

Granted
Jan 1, 2019

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

475

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.

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 475 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 Jan 18, 2012, when application 13/353,180, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 9, 2016)	Jan 18, 2032	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+475 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	May 7, 2033	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	May 7, 2033	High confidence

This family

Application 61/570,240	Provisional application no patent term	no patent term
US 9,317,496	In force Dec 2032	Dec 2032
Application PCT/US2012/046102	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
Application PCT/US2012/069019	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 10,534,842	In force Dec 2033	Dec 2033
US 10,169,311	this patent May 2033	May 2033
US 10,810,365	In force Jan 2032	Jan 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
Nov 22, 2017 Reel 44199, frame 881	Myers, Nolan Shea; Scott, Robert Benjamin; Neuberg, Bradley Keith; Zhao, Huan; Kopatsy, Arthur; Vogel, Bradford; Jones, Kerryck; Knowles, Kenneth Lorenz; Forman, Joshua John; Cromwell, Robert	Inkling Systems, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 15, 2018 Reel 45346, frame 794	Triplepoint Capital LLC	Inkling Systems, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Feb 15, 2018 Reel 45347, frame 274	Silicon Valley Bank	Inkling Systems, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Mar 6, 2018 Reel 45506, frame 160	Inkling Systems, Inc.; Ink Midco LLC	Wells Fargo Bank, National Association	Patent Security Agreement
May 1, 2024 Reel 67289, frame 1	Echo 360, Inc.; Echo 360 Continuing Education, LLC; Echo 360 Holdings, Inc.; Turning Acquisition, Inc.; Turning Tech Intermediate, Inc.; Turning Tech LLC; Turning Tech Holdings, LLC; Turning Technologies, LLC; Responsive Innovations, LLC; Response Tools, LLC; Inkling Systems, Inc.	Advantage Capital Management LLC, as Adminstrative Agent	Security Interest
May 1, 2024 reel/frame not recorded	Wells Fargo Bank, National Association	Inkling Systems, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
May 1, 2024 reel/frame not recorded	Wells Fargo Bank, National Association	Ink Midco LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 1, 2024 Reel 67285, frame 617	Wells Fargo Bank, National Association	Inkling Systems, Inc.; Ink Midco LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 12, 2025 Reel 71276, frame 781	Turning Tech Intermediate, Inc.; Turning Acquisition, Inc.; Echo 360, Inc.; Echo 360 Holdings, Inc.; Echo 360 Continuing Education, LLC; Turning Tech LLC; Turning Tech Holdings, LLC; Turning Technologies, LLC; Response Tools, LLC; Inkling Systems, Inc.; Speakworks, Inc.; Responsive Innovations, LLC	Advantage Capital Management LLC	Security Interest

Sources

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What's changing

May 2033

Term ends May 7, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 475 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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