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Method and System for Online Third-Party Authentication of Identity Attributes

US 10,592,645 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed Mar 17, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Id.me, LLC
Filed Mar 13, 2013 as application 13/799,997 · Granted Mar 17, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 391 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 17, 2024
2013 2034
Clock starts
Mar 13, 2013
No longer in force
Mar 17, 2024
Granted
Mar 17, 2020
Term would have run to
Apr 8, 2034
base term patent term adjustment 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
391
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
7
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 Apr 8, 2034: its 20-year base term plus 391 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Mar 13, 2013, when this application, 13/799,997, was filedMar 13, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+391 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 8, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 17, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 17, 2024High confidence

This family

US 10,592,645this patent
Mar 2024
Mar 2024
US 10,977,344In force
Mar 2033
Mar 2033
US 11,630,885In force
Mar 2033
Mar 2033
US 11,966,457In force
no later than Mar 2033
no later than Mar 2033
US 12,437,041In force
Mar 2033
Mar 2033
Application 19/326,942Pending
not computed
not computed
Application 19/326,933Pending
not computed
not computed
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Mar 13, 2013
Reel 29985, frame 594
Hall, Blake; Thompson, Matthew; Huynh, Tony; Kern, WilliamId.me, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 7, 2021
Reel 57435, frame 807
Id.me, Inc.Fortress Credit Corp., as Administrative AgentPatent Security Agreement
Jan 22, 2025
Reel 69988, frame 23
Fortress Credit Corp.Id.me, Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patents Recorded at Reel 057435/FRAME 0807
May 9, 2025
Reel 71248, frame 794
Id.me, Inc.Id.me, LLCChange of Name

Sources

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

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