Term ends Mar 29, 2029 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 22, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Filed Dec 29, 2008 as application 12/344,954 · Granted Apr 2, 2019
Base term plus 1223 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2029
Clock starts
Nov 22, 2005
Nov 22, 2005
Term ends
Mar 29, 2029
Mar 29, 2029
Granted
Apr 2, 2019
Apr 2, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,223
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
8
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 1223 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Nov 22, 2005, when application 11/285,053, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 29, 2008); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 22, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1223 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 29, 2029 | 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 | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 29, 2029 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,866,548 | In force Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| Application 11/741,426 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,248,951 | this patent Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| US 8,464,937 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 10,671,999 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 10,963,874 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 11,507,951 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 11,861,611 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 2008 Reel 22033, frame 747 | James, Vicki L.; Erdmann, Jeffrey Jay | Metavante Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 13, 2021 Reel 56284, frame 75 | Metavante Corporation | Fis Payments LLC | Conversion |
| Oct 1, 2021 Reel 57665, frame 528 | Fis Payments LLC | Fidelity Information Services, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2029
Term ends Mar 29, 2029.
Note
The 1223 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
132
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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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.