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US 10,291,492 In force
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Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 28, 2019 (Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLC).

Term ends Mar 7, 2034 · High confidence

Held by Evidon, Inc.
Filed Aug 15, 2013 as application 13/968,098 · Granted May 14, 2019
Base term plus 204 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2013 2034
Clock starts
Aug 15, 2013
Term ends
Mar 7, 2034
Granted
May 14, 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
204
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 204 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 15, 2013, when this application, 13/968,098, was filedAug 15, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+204 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 7, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 7, 2034High confidence

This family

US 10,291,492this patent
Mar 2034
Mar 2034
Application 15/059,296Abandoned
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Apr 22, 2014
Reel 32734, frame 181
Evidon, Inc.Ghostery, Inc.Change of Name
May 12, 2014
Reel 32868, frame 989
Nielsen, Patrick M.Evidon, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 30, 2014
Reel 33254, frame 52
Ghostery, Inc.Comerica BankSupplemental Intellectual Property Security Agreement
Jan 21, 2016
Reel 37554, frame 244
Nielsen, Patrick M.Ghostery, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 22, 2017
Reel 41782, frame 182
Ghostery, Inc.Evidon, Inc.Change of Name
Aug 7, 2017
Reel 43220, frame 151
Comerica BankEvidon, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Aug 16, 2017
Reel 43303, frame 202
Evidon, Inc.Pnc Bank, National AssociationSecurity Interest
Feb 28, 2019
Reel 48470, frame 972
Crownpeak Intermediate Holdings, Inc.; Crownpeak Technology, Inc.; Evidon, Inc.Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLC, as AgentSecurity Interest
Mar 1, 2019
Reel 48479, frame 851
Pnc Bank, National AssociationCrownpeak Intermediate Holdings, Inc.; Crownpeak Technology, Inc.; Evidon, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 1, 2019
reel/frame not recorded
Pnc Bank, National AssociationCrownpeak Intermediate Holdings, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 1, 2019
reel/frame not recorded
Pnc Bank, National AssociationCrownpeak Technology, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 1, 2019
reel/frame not recorded
Pnc Bank, National AssociationEvidon, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jan 26, 2026
Reel 73574, frame 108
Evidon, Inc.Crownpeak Technology Holdings, LLC, as the Secured PartySecurity Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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