Term ends May 16, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 16, 2031
Held by Litl LLC
Filed Sep 12, 2016 as application 15/262,970 · Granted Jun 30, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
May 16, 2011
May 16, 2011
Term ends
May 16, 2031
May 16, 2031
Granted
Jun 30, 2020
Jun 30, 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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
10
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. 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 16, 2011, when applications 13/108,451 and 13/108,467, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Sep 12, 2016) | May 16, 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 | None on record | no cap applied | 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 16, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,619,116 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| US 8,928,725 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| Application 13/108,451 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,760,488 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2011/057298 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,473,739 | In force no later than May 2031 | no later than May 2031 |
| US 10,701,309 | this patent May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 11,265,510 | In force no later than May 2031 | no later than May 2031 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2017 Reel 43495, frame 521 | Litl LLC | Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC | Security Interest |
| Sep 7, 2017 Reel 43525, frame 493 | Aquent LLC; Litl LLC; Scout Exchange LLC | Crystal Financial LLC | Security Interest |
| Jun 14, 2018 Reel 46364, frame 419 | Crystal Financial LLC | Aquent LLC; Litl LLC; Scout Exchange LLC | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights at Reel/Frame: 043525/0493 |
| Jun 14, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Crystal Financial LLC | Aquent LLC | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights at Reel/Frame: 043525/0493 |
| Jun 14, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Crystal Financial LLC | Litl LLC | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights at Reel/Frame: 043525/0493 |
| Jun 14, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Crystal Financial LLC | Scout Exchange LLC | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights at Reel/Frame: 043525/0493 |
| Oct 30, 2019 Reel 50868, frame 606 | Tang, Aaron; Havoc Pennington, Robert Sanford | Litl LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 30, 2019 Reel 50868, frame 858 | Bilien, Johan | Litl LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 30, 2019 Reel 50868, frame 960 | Chuang, John; Bambacus, Chris; Moody, Chris | Litl LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 30, 2019 Reel 50869, frame 48 | Eliason, Eben | Litl LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 22, 2020 Reel 52736, frame 891 | Aquent LLC | Litl LLC | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2031
Term ends May 16, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
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