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Methods for Authenticating Photographic Image Data

US 11,159,504 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 11, 2024 (Wti Fund X, Inc.).

Term ends Oct 10, 2037 · High confidence

Held by Truepic Inc.
Filed Aug 5, 2019 as application 16/531,620 · Granted Oct 26, 2021
Base term plus 16 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
Oct 10, 2017
Term ends
Oct 10, 2037
Granted
Oct 26, 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
16
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 10,375,050.
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 16 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 10, 2017, when application 15/728,869, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 5, 2019)Oct 10, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+16 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 26, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,375,050)capped to Oct 10, 2037High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 10, 2037High confidence

This family

US 10,375,050In force
Oct 2037
Oct 2037
Application PCT/US2018/053059PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,159,504this patent
Oct 2037
Oct 2037
US 11,632,363In force
Dec 2037
Dec 2037
US 11,968,199In force
no later than Oct 2037
no later than Oct 2037
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
Aug 5, 2019
Reel 49959, frame 141
Lyons, Jason; Stack, Craig; Lyons, Francis; McGregor, JeffreyTruepic Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 11, 2024
Reel 67970, frame 287
Truepic Inc.Wti Fund X, Inc.; Wti Fund XI, Inc.Security Interest
Jul 11, 2024
reel/frame not recorded
Truepic Inc.Wti Fund X, Inc.Security Interest
Jul 11, 2024
reel/frame not recorded
Truepic Inc.Wti Fund XI, Inc.Security Interest

Sources

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

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