Term ends Dec 12, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 29, 2030
Held by Alarm.com Incorporated
Filed Oct 1, 2018 as application 16/148,124 · Granted Jun 23, 2020
Base term plus 74 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Sep 29, 2010
Sep 29, 2010
Term ends
Dec 12, 2030
Dec 12, 2030
Granted
Jun 23, 2020
Jun 23, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
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
74
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,089,843, to Dec 12, 2030. 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.
9
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 74 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Sep 29, 2010, when application 12/893,162, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 1, 2018) | Sep 29, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +74 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 12, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,089,843) | resolves to Dec 12, 2030, 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 | Dec 12, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,675,066 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| US 9,386,281 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 9,153,111 | In force Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
| US 10,089,843 | In force Nov 2031 | Nov 2031 |
| US 10,692,342 | this patent Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 11,354,993 | In force Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
| US 12,217,582 | In force no later than Oct 2030 | no later than Oct 2030 |
| US 12,784,562 | In force Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2019 Reel 48599, frame 210 | Trundle, Stephen Scott; McCarthy, Robert J., JR.; Martin, Jean-paul; Slavin, Alison Jane; Hutz, David James | Alarm.com Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2030
Term ends Dec 12, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 74 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,089,843, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below 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.