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Enhanced Encryption for Face-Related Data

US 11,496,288 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 18, 2022 (Silicon Valley Bank).

Term ends Apr 8, 2042 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds.

Held by Verkada Inc.
Filed Apr 8, 2022 as application 17/716,424 · Granted Nov 8, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2022 2042
Clock starts
Apr 8, 2022
Term ends
Apr 8, 2042
Granted
Nov 8, 2022
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
Not on record
Maintenance fees
USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse.
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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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events, so no fee is counted as paid or unpaid. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 8, 2022, when this application, 17/716,424, was filedApr 8, 2042High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo fee events in USPTO's record of this patent. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapseIn forceMedium confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 8, 2042Medium confidence

This family

US 11,514,714In force
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US 11,496,288this patent
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US 12,015,692In force
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US 11,676,418In force
Apr 2042
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Application PCT/US2023/065517PCT application
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no patent term
US 12,640,904In force
Apr 2042
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Application 19/664,828Pending
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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
Jun 24, 2022
Reel 60311, frame 437
Soltani, Kiumars; Wang, Yuewei; Chhabra, Kabir; Giron Nanne, Jose M.; Gong, YunchaoVerkada Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 18, 2022
Reel 60537, frame 838
Verkada Inc.Silicon Valley Bank, As AgentSecurity Interest

Sources

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

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