Term ends May 6, 2033 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 11, 2033
Held by Synchrony Bank
Filed Aug 9, 2019 as application 16/537,143 · Granted Dec 7, 2021
Base term plus 56 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013
Term ends
May 6, 2033
May 6, 2033
Granted
Dec 7, 2021
Dec 7, 2021
base term
patent term adjustment
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
56
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,540,630, to May 6, 2033. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
15
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 56 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 11, 2013, when application 13/794,375, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 9, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 11, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +56 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 6, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,540,630) | resolves to May 6, 2033, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 13794375, 13794375 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 6, 2033 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 9,773,273 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2014/011933 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,540,630 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 10,769,705 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 10,068,280 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 10,275,822 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 10,373,236 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 11,430,045 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
8 of 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 2019 Reel 51024, frame 776 | Erez, Roy; Sirota, Alex | Loop Commerce, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 18, 2025 Reel 70890, frame 721 | Loop Commerce, Inc. | Loop Commerce, LLC | Change of Name |
| Jul 1, 2025 Reel 71582, frame 290 | Loop Commerce, LLC | Synchrony Financial | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 11, 2025 Reel 71675, frame 809 | Synchrony Financial | Synchrony Bank | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2033
Term ends May 6, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 56 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,540,630, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.