Term ends Aug 31, 2035 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 31, 2035
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Vpay, Inc.
Filed Jul 16, 2021 as application 17/378,215 · Granted Mar 7, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Aug 31, 2015
Aug 31, 2015
Term ends
Aug 31, 2035
Aug 31, 2035
Granted
Mar 7, 2023
Mar 7, 2023
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,068,898, to Aug 31, 2035. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
5
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. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Aug 31, 2015, when application 14/840,783, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 16, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 31, 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 | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,068,898) | resolves to Aug 31, 2035, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Aug 31, 2035 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 14/840,783 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,445,735 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| US 11,068,898 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| US 11,599,885 | this patent Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| US 12,033,155 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2021 Reel 56910, frame 720 | Allen, Robert M. | Vpay, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2035
Term ends Aug 31, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,068,898, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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.