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US 10,933,153 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed Mar 2, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by DLVR, LLC
Filed Apr 4, 2020 as application 16/840,335 · Granted Mar 2, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Mar 2, 2025
2019 2039
Clock starts
Nov 8, 2019
No longer in force
Mar 2, 2025
Granted
Mar 2, 2021
Term would have run to
Nov 8, 2039
base term after the term ends 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.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
0 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.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Nov 8, 2039: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. Confidence: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 8, 2019, when application 16/678,891, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 4, 2020)Nov 8, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 2, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 2, 2025Medium confidence

This family

Application 16/678,891Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 10,933,153this patent
Mar 2025
Mar 2025
US 11,413,366Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2026
Aug 2026
US 11,944,715In force
Nov 2039
Nov 2039
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Nov 27, 2020
Reel 54477, frame 419
Shell, Michael Ross; Goswami, Sameer; Argrow, Brian Maurice; Albright, Hunter Thomas; Silva, Stephen Robert; Pollock, James William; Gustafson, Kyle Mathew; Candee, Daniel Eric; Dombrower, Edward; Ruder, John; Hadden, Bryant RichardDLVR, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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