Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 30, 2023 (Hercules Capital, Inc.).
Term ends Mar 8, 2036 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 16, 2035
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Saama Technologies, LLC
Filed Oct 16, 2020 as application 17/073,257 · Granted Mar 7, 2023
Base term plus 83 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2036
Clock starts
Dec 16, 2015
Dec 16, 2015
Term ends
Mar 8, 2036
Mar 8, 2036
Granted
Mar 7, 2023
Mar 7, 2023
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
83
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 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.
6
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 83 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 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 Dec 16, 2015, when application 14/971,885, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 16, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Dec 16, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +83 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 8, 2036 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 8, 2036 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,776,359 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| Application 14/975,778 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,078,843 | In force Mar 2036 | Mar 2036 |
| US 9,898,709 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| Application 14/987,573 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,599,841 | this patent Mar 2036 | Mar 2036 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 2021 Reel 55895, frame 452 | Anisingaraju, Vidya Sagar; Gnana, Haranath; Gondhali, Ghananeel | Saama Technologies Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 29, 2023 Reel 64165, frame 578 | Saama Technologies, Inc. | Saama Technologies, LLC | Entity Conversion |
| Jun 30, 2023 Reel 64127, frame 314 | Saama Technologies, LLC | Hercules Capital, Inc., as Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2036
Term ends Mar 8, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 83 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2023 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.