Term ends Oct 9, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 5, 2035
Held by Ecoatm, LLC
Filed Nov 5, 2015 as application 14/934,134 · Granted Dec 8, 2020
Base term plus 1069 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2038
Clock starts
Nov 5, 2015
Nov 5, 2015
Term ends
Oct 9, 2038
Oct 9, 2038
Granted
Dec 8, 2020
Dec 8, 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
1,069
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
13
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 1069 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 5, 2015, when this application, 14/934,134, was filed | Nov 5, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1069 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 9, 2038 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 9, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,417,615 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 10,860,990 | this patent Oct 2038 | Oct 2038 |
| Application 14/967,183 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,080,672 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 11,436,570 | In force Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
| US 11,315,093 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| Application 17/086,357 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 12,541,745 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2016 Reel 38672, frame 265 | Bowles, Mark Vincent; Erman, Randal | Ecoatm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 8, 2017 Reel 41505, frame 967 | Ecoatm, LLC | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Jan 4, 2019 Reel 47901, frame 518 | Ecoatm, LLC | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Aug 9, 2019 Reel 50017, frame 356 | Beane, John Andrew | Ecoatm, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 7, 2020 Reel 51431, frame 522 | Silicon Valley Bank | Ecoatm, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 8, 2020 Reel 51504, frame 383 | Ecoatm, LLC | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| Jan 29, 2020 Reel 51753, frame 133 | Ecoatm, Inc. | Ecoatm, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2038
Term ends Oct 9, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1069 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
96
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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