Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 6, 2022 (Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC).
Term ends Sep 3, 2032 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 20, 2031
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 10,764,392), so the cap could be lower.
Held by Litl LLC
Filed Jul 24, 2020 as application 16/938,852 · Granted Dec 6, 2022
Base term plus 319 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Oct 20, 2011
Oct 20, 2011
Term ends
Sep 3, 2032
Sep 3, 2032
Granted
Dec 6, 2022
Dec 6, 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
319
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,764,392, US 11,522,964, to Sep 3, 2032. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
4
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 319 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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 Oct 20, 2011, when application 13/277,634, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 24, 2020) | Oct 20, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +319 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 3, 2032 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,764,392, US 11,522,964) | resolves to Sep 3, 2032, no earlier than this term, so no change | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 3, 2032 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,292,149 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 10,764,392 | In force no later than Dec 2034 | no later than Dec 2034 |
| US 11,522,964 | this patent Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| Application 17/983,325 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 8, 2021 Reel 57738, frame 400 | Havoc Pennington, Robert Sanford; Tang, Aaron; Chuang, John H.; Bambacus, Christopher; Eliason, Eben; Moody, Chris; Bilien, Johan | Litl LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 8, 2021 Reel 57738, frame 698 | Aquent LLC | Litl LLC | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Jul 6, 2022 Reel 60592, frame 883 | Litl LLC | Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC | Amendment N0. 6 to Patent Security Agreement |
| Jan 20, 2023 Reel 62442, frame 862 | Litl LLC | Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC | Security Agreement |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2032
Term ends Sep 3, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 319 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,764,392, US 11,522,964, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.