Term ends Nov 27, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 28, 2037
Held by AB Initio Technology LLC
Filed Sep 18, 2020 as application 17/025,513 · Granted Aug 9, 2022
Base term plus 146 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Aug 28, 2017
Aug 28, 2017
Term ends
Nov 27, 2037
Nov 27, 2037
Granted
Aug 9, 2022
Aug 9, 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
146
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,831,509, US 11,080,067.
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.
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 146 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Aug 28, 2017, when application 15/688,587, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 18, 2020) | Aug 28, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +146 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 21, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,831,509, US 11,080,067) | capped to Nov 27, 2037 | 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 | Nov 27, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,831,509 | In force Nov 2038 | Nov 2038 |
| Application PCT/US2018/019272 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,080,067 | In force Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| US 11,409,545 | this patent Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| US 11,947,978 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 11,669,343 | In force Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2022/016457 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,983,548 | In force no later than Aug 2037 | no later than Aug 2037 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 2022 Reel 58833, frame 361 | Ravid, Oded; Murphy, Trevor; Rossi, Larry Paul; Gould, Joel | AB Initio Software LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 31, 2022 Reel 58833, frame 413 | AB Initio Software LLC | AB Initio Original Works LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 31, 2022 Reel 58833, frame 454 | AB Initio Original Works LLC | AB Initio Technology LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2037
Term ends Nov 27, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 146 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,831,509, US 11,080,067.
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2022 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
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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.