Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 19, 2022 (Silicon Valley Bank).
Term ends Feb 27, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 12, 2040
Held by Span.io, Inc.
Filed Feb 12, 2020 as application 16/789,324 · Granted May 24, 2022
USPTO first gave this application the number US 11,309,711 and withdrew it before it issued. That number now leads here.
Base term plus 15 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Feb 12, 2020
Feb 12, 2020
Term ends
Feb 27, 2040
Feb 27, 2040
Granted
May 24, 2022
May 24, 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
15
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 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 15 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Feb 12, 2020, when this application, 16/789,324, was filed | Feb 12, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +15 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 27, 2040 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 27, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,342,754 | this patent Feb 2040 | Feb 2040 |
| Application PCT/US2020/017993 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,770,006 | In force Feb 2040 | Feb 2040 |
| US 12,237,689 | In force Feb 2040 | Feb 2040 |
| US 12,776,651 | In force Feb 2040 | Feb 2040 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2020 Reel 54201, frame 619 | Rao, Archan Padmanabhan; Conway, Chadwick; Weinstein, Jack Jester; Dimen, Ian | Span.io, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 19, 2022 Reel 61138, frame 153 | Span.io, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Sep 19, 2022 Reel 61138, frame 254 | Span.io, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank, As Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 10, 2023 Reel 65536, frame 229 | Span.io, Inc. | First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company | First Amendment to Intellectual Property Security Agreement (SENIOR) |
| Nov 10, 2023 Reel 65536, frame 304 | Span.io, Inc. | First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company | First Amendment to Intellectual Property Security Agreement (MEZZANINE) |
| Mar 8, 2024 Reel 66690, frame 773 | Span.io, Inc. | First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2040
Term ends Feb 27, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 15 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
27
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.