Term ends Jan 20, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 5, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Sitnet, LLC
Filed Jul 27, 2020 as application 16/940,327 · Granted May 10, 2022
Base term plus 107 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2027
Clock starts
Oct 5, 2006
Oct 5, 2006
Term ends
Jan 20, 2027
Jan 20, 2027
Granted
May 10, 2022
May 10, 2022
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
107
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
8
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 107 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 1 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Oct 5, 2006, when application 11/544,994, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 27, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 5, 2026 | 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 | +107 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 20, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 20, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 11/544,994 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,916,976 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application 11/796,926 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,754,836 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 11,327,936 | this patent Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 11,308,052 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 12,032,623 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Application 18/677,525 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2020 Reel 53325, frame 428 | Kedikian, Roland H. | Resource Consortium Limited, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 1, 2022 Reel 60964, frame 621 | Kedikian, Roland H. | Resource Consortium Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 1, 2022 Reel 61365, frame 553 | Resource Consortium Limited | Resource Consortium Limited, LLC | Re-Domestication and Entity Conversion |
| Nov 2, 2022 Reel 61630, frame 693 | Resource Consortium Limited, LLC | Sitnet, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2027
Term ends Jan 20, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 107 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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