Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 22, 2023 (Midcap Financial Trust).
Term ends Mar 17, 2034 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 17, 2034
Held by Study Edge, Inc.
Filed Sep 27, 2018 as application 16/144,672 · Granted Dec 24, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014
Term ends
Mar 17, 2034
Mar 17, 2034
Granted
Dec 24, 2019
Dec 24, 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,113,983, to Mar 17, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
15
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 3 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 Mar 17, 2014, when application 14/216,688, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 27, 2018); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 17, 2034 | 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 | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,113,983) | resolves to Mar 17, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | Medium 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 | Mar 17, 2034 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,126,927 | In force Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
| US 10,540,906 | In force Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 10,467,918 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 11,113,983 | In force no later than Mar 2034 | no later than Mar 2034 |
| US 10,515,561 | this patent Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,572,135 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 11,061,547 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 11,056,013 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
8 of 15 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 4, 2018 Reel 47067, frame 635 | Fieldman, Ethan | Study Social, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 23, 2021 Reel 58200, frame 782 | Study Edge, Inc. (F/K/A Study Social, Inc.) | Barings Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Mar 16, 2023 Reel 63005, frame 886 | Studysocial, Inc.; Sunshine Merger Sub, Inc.; Study Edge, Inc. | Study Edge, Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
| Mar 22, 2023 Reel 63142, frame 625 | Studysocial, Inc.; Sunshine Merger Sub, Inc. | Study Edge, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the First Listed Patent from "Application Number 10540906" to --Patent Number 10540906-- Previously Recorded at Reel: 063005 Frame: 0886. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger and Change of Name. |
| Mar 22, 2023 Reel 63146, frame 839 | Study Edge, Inc. | Midcap Financial Trust | Patent Security Agreement |
| Mar 23, 2023 Reel 63073, frame 537 | Barings Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Study Edge, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
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What's changing
Mar 2034
Term ends Mar 17, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,113,983, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
10
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.
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.