Term ends May 13, 2031 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Refinitiv US Organization LLC

Filed Nov 14, 2016 as application 15/351,256 · Granted May 12, 2020

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends May 13, 2031

2011 2031

Clock starts
May 13, 2011

Term ends
May 13, 2031

Granted
May 12, 2020

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 9,495,635, to May 13, 2031. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

1 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 2 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 May 13, 2011, when application 13/107,665, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 14, 2016)	May 13, 2031	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,495,635)	resolves to May 13, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 2 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	May 13, 2031	High confidence

This family

US 9,495,635	In force May 2031	May 2031
US 9,292,545	In force Sep 2032	Sep 2032
Application 14/834,317	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 10,235,425	In force May 2031	May 2031
US 10,650,049	this patent May 2031	May 2031
US 10,303,999	In force Jul 2031	Jul 2031
US 11,386,096	Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2026	Jul 2026
US 11,222,052	In force Sep 2031	Sep 2031

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
Jan 9, 2018 Reel 44572, frame 622	Malik, Hassan H.	Thomson Reuters (Markets) LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 9, 2018 Reel 44572, frame 652	Olof-ors, Mans	Thomson Reuters Global Resources (TRGR)	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 9, 2018 Reel 44572, frame 730	Olof-ors, Mans	Thomson Reuters Global Resources	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 10, 2018 Reel 44585, frame 867	Thomson Reuters (Markets) LLC	Thomson Reuters Global Resources	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 18, 2018 Reel 44649, frame 306	Thomson Reuters Global Resources	Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company	Change of Name
Oct 2, 2018 Reel 47185, frame 215	Thomson Reuters (GRC) Inc.	Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Security Agreement
Oct 3, 2018 Reel 47187, frame 316	Thomson Reuters (GRC) Inc.	Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent	Security Agreement
Dec 14, 2018 Reel 48553, frame 154	Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company	Thomson Reuters (GRC) Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 19, 2018 Reel 47955, frame 485	Thomson Reuters (GRC) Inc.	Thomson Reuters (GRC) LLC	Change of Name
Mar 22, 2019 Reel 48676, frame 377	Thomson Reuters (GRC) LLC	Refinitiv US Organization LLC	Change of Name
Jan 29, 2021 Reel 55174, frame 811	Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Notes Collateral Agent	Refinitiv US Organization LLC (F/K/A Thomson Reuters (GRC) Inc.)	Release of Security Interest
Jan 29, 2021 Reel 55174, frame 836	Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Refinitiv US Organization LLC (F/K/A Thomson Reuters (GRC) Inc.)	Release of Security Interest

Sources

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What's changing

May 2031

Term ends May 13, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,495,635, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above the median 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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