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Asset Tracking System and Method of Enabling User Cost Reduction for Such Assets

US 11,392,977 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 28, 2022 (Ares Capital Corporation).

Term ends Feb 7, 2034 · High confidence

Filed Jul 20, 2016 as application 15/214,877 · Granted Jul 19, 2022
Base term plus 777 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2011 2034
Clock starts
Dec 23, 2011
Term ends
Feb 7, 2034
Granted
Jul 19, 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
777
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 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.
19
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 777 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 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 Dec 23, 2011, when application 13/336,559, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 20, 2016)Dec 23, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+777 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 7, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 7, 2034High confidence

This family

US 8,983,806In force
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US 10,861,099In force
Dec 2031
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US 11,392,977this patent
Feb 2034
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Application 15/345,071Abandoned
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US 10,181,079In force
Mar 2037
Mar 2037
Application 15/606,475Abandoned
not computed
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8 of 19 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 28, 2016
Reel 39502, frame 787
Bruffey, Timothy; Labrie, JacobAccurence, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 29, 2019
Reel 50235, frame 48
Accurence, Inc.Silicon Valley BankIntellectual Property Security Agreement
Feb 28, 2022
Reel 59123, frame 113
Silicon Valley BankAccurence, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 14, 2022
Reel 59253, frame 253
Westriver Innovation Lending Fund VIII, L.P.Accurence, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 28, 2022
Reel 59407, frame 241
Accurence, Inc.U.S. Bank Trust Company, National AssociationSecurity Interest
Mar 28, 2022
Reel 59511, frame 916
Accurence, Inc.Ares Capital CorporationSecond Lien Patent Security Agreement
Jul 28, 2026
Reel 75425, frame 217
U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as Successor in Interest to U.S. Bank National Association), in Its Capacity as Notes Collateral AgentAccurence, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

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