Term ends Aug 14, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 14, 2033
Held by Kustom Entertainment, Inc.
Filed Oct 12, 2015 as application 14/880,453 · Granted Mar 30, 2021
Base term plus 745 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Aug 14, 2013
Aug 14, 2013
Term ends
Aug 14, 2033
Aug 14, 2033
Granted
Mar 30, 2021
Mar 30, 2021
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
745
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 9,159,371.
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.
22
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 745 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Aug 14, 2013, when application 13/967,151, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 12, 2015) | Aug 14, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +745 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 29, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,159,371) | capped to Aug 14, 2033 | 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 | Aug 14, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,253,452 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 8,781,292 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 10,390,732 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 9,159,371 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 10,075,681 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 10,964,351 | this patent Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2015/056062 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2015/056039 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2015 Reel 36771, frame 670 | Ross, Stanton E.; Han, Peng; Dick, Jeremy A. | Digital Ally, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 10, 2018 Reel 45494, frame 330 | Digital Ally, Inc. | Mef I, LP | Security Interest |
| Aug 28, 2019 Reel 50203, frame 511 | Digital Ally, Inc. | Ogp I, LLC | Security Interest |
| Aug 12, 2026 Reel 76259, frame 529 | Digital Ally, Inc. | Kustom Entertainment, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Aug 2033
Term ends Aug 14, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 745 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 9,159,371.
Citations
24
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2021 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
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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.