Term ends Aug 10, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 4, 2037
Held by Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Filed Aug 4, 2017 as application 15/669,839 · Granted Nov 19, 2019
Base term plus 6 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Aug 4, 2017
Aug 4, 2017
Term ends
Aug 10, 2037
Aug 10, 2037
Granted
Nov 19, 2019
Nov 19, 2019
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
6
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 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.
13
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 6 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Aug 4, 2017, when this application, 15/669,839, was filed | Aug 4, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +6 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 10, 2037 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 10, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,726,690 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 10,510,232 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 10,482,737 | this patent Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 10,388,131 | In force Feb 2038 | Feb 2038 |
| US 10,650,650 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| Application 16/517,576 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,984,641 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,062,577 | In force Sep 2037 | Sep 2037 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 2017 Reel 44480, frame 53 | Modestine, John | Bot Home Automation, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 10, 2018 Reel 48694, frame 320 | Bot Home Automation, Inc. | Ring Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 10, 2018 Reel 47764, frame 74 | Ring Inc. | Ring, LLC | Change of Name |
| Dec 10, 2018 Reel 48695, frame 493 | Ring LLC | A9 Com, Inc. | Bill of Sale |
| Nov 5, 2020 Reel 54337, frame 604 | A9.com, Inc. | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Aug 2037
Term ends Aug 10, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 6 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
21
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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