Lapsed Apr 27, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 12, 2034
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Nextnav, LLC
Filed Apr 29, 2020 as application 16/862,426 · Granted Apr 27, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Apr 27, 2025
2014
2034
Clock starts
Mar 12, 2014
Mar 12, 2014
No longer in force
Apr 27, 2025
Apr 27, 2025
Granted
Apr 27, 2021
Apr 27, 2021
Term would have run to
Mar 12, 2034
Mar 12, 2034
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,750,470, to Mar 12, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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 Mar 12, 2034: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Mar 12, 2014, when application 14/207,210, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 29, 2020) | Mar 12, 2034 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,750,470) | resolves to Mar 12, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Apr 27, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 27, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,326,105 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 9,980,246 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,750,470 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,993,204 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2020 Reel 52530, frame 925 | Pattabiraman, Ganesh; Joseph, Deepak | Nextnav, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2025 Reel 70691, frame 909 | Nextnav Inc.; Nextnav Holdings, LLC; Nextnav Intermediate Holdco, LLC; Progeny LMS, LLC; Commlabs, Inc. | Glas Trust Company LLC | Security Interest |
| Jul 24, 2026 Reel 76062, frame 701 | Glas Trust Company LLC | Nextnav Inc.; Nextnav Holdings, LLC; Nextnav Intermediate Holdco, LLC; Progeny LMS, LLC; Commlabs, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,750,470, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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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