Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 12, 2026 (Mercatus Admin LLC).
Term ends Feb 23, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 23, 2037
Held by Brumate, Inc.
Filed Jul 27, 2022 as application 17/875,041 · Granted Jul 11, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017
Term ends
Feb 23, 2037
Feb 23, 2037
Granted
Jul 11, 2023
Jul 11, 2023
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,530,086, US 11,697,545, to Feb 23, 2037. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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.
11
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. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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 Feb 23, 2017, when application 15/440,954, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 27, 2022) | Feb 23, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,530,086, US 11,697,545) | resolves to Feb 23, 2037, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 23, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,005,608 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 10,457,471 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,414,258 | In force no later than Feb 2037 | no later than Feb 2037 |
| US 11,530,086 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,697,546 | this patent Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,691,802 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,697,545 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,738,933 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
8 of 11 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 28, 2022 Reel 60655, frame 240 | Jacob, Dylan M. | Brumate, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 12, 2026 Reel 74833, frame 823 | Brumate, LLC | Mercatus Admin LLC | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2037
Term ends Feb 23, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,530,086, US 11,697,545, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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