Term ends Nov 8, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 17, 2029
Held by Reliance Worldwide Corporation
Filed Aug 11, 2016 as application 15/234,958 · Granted May 19, 2020
Base term plus 866 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2009
2030
Clock starts
Aug 17, 2009
Aug 17, 2009
Term ends
Nov 8, 2030
Nov 8, 2030
Granted
May 19, 2020
May 19, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
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
866
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 8,210,029.
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.
7
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 866 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Aug 17, 2009, when application 12/542,371, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 11, 2016) | Aug 17, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +866 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 31, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,210,029) | capped to Nov 8, 2030 | 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 | Nov 8, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,210,029 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| US 8,887,768 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 9,964,461 | In force Jul 2031 | Jul 2031 |
| US 10,656,042 | this patent Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| US 11,493,399 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| US 11,781,934 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| Application 18/459,784 | Pending 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 2016 Reel 40588, frame 726 | O'neil, Virgil; Gonzalez, Cristobal; Brown, Larry D.; Hart, Dennis L.; Jaramillo, Jeffrey A. | Securus, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 15, 2018 Reel 44947, frame 128 | Securus, Inc.; Reliance Worldwide Corporation | Reliance Worldwide Corporation | Merger and Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2030
Term ends Nov 8, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 866 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 8,210,029.
Citations
10
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
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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.