Lapsed Sep 24, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 28, 2034
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Aug 22, 2016 as application 15/243,122 · Granted Sep 24, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 236 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Sep 24, 2023
2014
2034
Clock starts
Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014
No longer in force
Sep 24, 2023
Sep 24, 2023
Granted
Sep 24, 2019
Sep 24, 2019
Term would have run to
Jul 28, 2034
Jul 28, 2034
base term
after the term ends
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
236
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,368,011, US 9,451,162, US 9,911,454.
0 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.
22
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jul 28, 2034: its 20-year base term plus 236 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jul 28, 2014, when application 14/444,938, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 22, 2016) | Jul 28, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +236 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 21, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,368,011, US 9,451,162, US 9,911,454) | capped to Jul 28, 2034 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 24, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 24, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,451,162 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 9,911,454 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 10,368,011 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 10,186,301 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 10,701,426 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 9,363,569 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 9,851,793 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,425,570 | this patent Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
8 of 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2019 Reel 50602, frame 853 | Jaunt, Inc. | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 16, 2019 Reel 50736, frame 713 | Van Hoff, Arthur; Annau, Thomas M.; Christensen, Jens; Gardiner, Koji | Jaunt Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 236 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,368,011, US 9,451,162, US 9,911,454.
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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