Term ends Aug 31, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 31, 2035
Held by Vpay, Inc.
Filed Sep 4, 2019 as application 16/559,739 · Granted Jul 20, 2021
Base term plus 105 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Aug 31, 2015
Aug 31, 2015
Term ends
Aug 31, 2035
Aug 31, 2035
Granted
Jul 20, 2021
Jul 20, 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
105
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 10,445,735.
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.
5
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 105 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 31, 2015, when application 14/840,783, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 4, 2019) | Aug 31, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +105 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 14, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,445,735) | capped to Aug 31, 2035 | 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 31, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 14/840,783 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,445,735 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| US 11,068,898 | this patent Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| US 11,599,885 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| US 12,033,155 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
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 18, 2019 Reel 50410, frame 273 | Allen, Robert M. | Vpay, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 19, 2020 Reel 54097, frame 61 | Vpay, Inc. | Comerica Bank | Security Interest |
| Dec 29, 2020 Reel 54861, frame 737 | Vpay, Inc. | BMO Harris Bank N.A., as Administrative Agent | Grant of a Security Interest Patents |
| Dec 30, 2020 Reel 54873, frame 646 | Comerica Bank | Vpay, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 21, 2021 Reel 54989, frame 883 | BMO Harris Bank N.A. | Vpay, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2035
Term ends Aug 31, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 105 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 10,445,735.
Citations
4
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.
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