Lapsed Jul 12, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: The fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case".

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.

Filed Sep 23, 2019 as application 16/579,392 · Granted Jul 12, 2022

USPTO first gave this application the number US 11,347,731 and withdrew it before it issued. That number now leads here.

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 243 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Jul 12, 2026

2015 2035

Clock starts
Jan 27, 2015

No longer in force
Jul 12, 2026

Granted
Jul 12, 2022

Term would have run to
Sep 27, 2035

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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

243

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

0 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.

Family applications on record here

Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Sep 27, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 243 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jan 27, 2015, when application 14/606,178, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 23, 2019)	Jan 27, 2035	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+243 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Sep 27, 2035	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	The fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"	lapsed Jul 12, 2026	Medium confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jul 12, 2026	Medium confidence

This family

US 10,255,320	In force Nov 2036	Nov 2036
US 11,822,545	In force Nov 2035	Nov 2035
US 11,921,715	In force Aug 2035	Aug 2035
US 11,386,085	this patent Jul 2026	Jul 2026
US 12,056,120	In force Jan 2035	Jan 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
Nov 12, 2019 Reel 50980, frame 783	Luo, Yi; Ojha, Ananya; Cheng, Zhili; Liang, Dongping	Microstrategy Incorporated	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 22, 2021 Reel 56647, frame 687	Microstrategy Incorporated	U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Feb 17, 2023 Reel 62794, frame 255	Microstrategy Incorporated; Microstrategy Services Corporation	U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Successor in Interest to U.S. Bank National Association, in Its Capacity as Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties	Supplementary Patent Security Agreement
Sep 26, 2024 Reel 69065, frame 539	U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Successor in Interest to U.S. Bank National Association, in Its Capacity as Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties	Microstrategy Incorporated; Microstrategy Services Corporation	Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement at Reel/Frame: 056647/0687, Reel/Frame: 057435/0023, Reel/Frame: 059256/0247, Reel/Frame: 062794/0255 and Reel/Frame: 066663/0713
Sep 26, 2024 reel/frame not recorded	U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Successor in Interest to U.S. Bank National Association, in Its Capacity as Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties	Microstrategy Incorporated	Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement at Reel/Frame: 056647/0687, Reel/Frame: 057435/0023, Reel/Frame: 059256/0247, Reel/Frame: 062794/0255 and Reel/Frame: 066663/0713
Sep 26, 2024 reel/frame not recorded	U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Successor in Interest to U.S. Bank National Association, in Its Capacity as Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties	Microstrategy Services Corporation	Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement at Reel/Frame: 056647/0687, Reel/Frame: 057435/0023, Reel/Frame: 059256/0247, Reel/Frame: 062794/0255 and Reel/Frame: 066663/0713
Sep 19, 2025 Reel 72974, frame 529	Microstrategy Incorporated	Strategy Inc.	Change of Name

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The 243 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

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