Term ends Nov 11, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 11, 2035
Held by Acuant, Inc.
Filed Dec 22, 2017 as application 15/853,417 · Granted Apr 21, 2020
Base term plus 287 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Nov 11, 2015
Nov 11, 2015
Term ends
Nov 11, 2035
Nov 11, 2035
Granted
Apr 21, 2020
Apr 21, 2020
base term
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
287
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 9,852,427.
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.
4
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 287 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Nov 11, 2015, when application 14/938,593, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 22, 2017) | Nov 11, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +287 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 24, 2036 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,852,427) | capped to Nov 11, 2035 | 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 | Nov 11, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,852,427 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,818,116 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 10,037,533 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 10,628,828 | this patent Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2018 Reel 45561, frame 814 | Caldera, Jose | Idm Global, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 27, 2019 Reel 50185, frame 369 | Idm Global, Inc. | Identitymind Global, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 18, 2019 Reel 50409, frame 826 | Identitymind Global Inc. | Crestline Direct Finance, L.P., as Collateral Agent for the Benefit of Secured Parties | Security Interest |
| Oct 14, 2020 Reel 54052, frame 499 | Identifymind Global Inc. | Acuant Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 15, 2021 Reel 54939, frame 553 | Identitymind Global, Inc. | Acuant, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 30, 2021 Reel 58234, frame 781 | Crestline Direct Finance, L.P., as Collateral Agent | Identitymind Global Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2035
Term ends Nov 11, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 287 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 9,852,427.
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2020 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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