Term ends Sep 27, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 14, 2035
Held by Affirm, Inc.
Filed Mar 31, 2021 as application 17/219,305 · Granted Aug 8, 2023
Base term plus 136 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015
Term ends
Sep 27, 2035
Sep 27, 2035
Granted
Aug 8, 2023
Aug 8, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
136
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
8
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 136 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 May 14, 2015, when application 14/712,790, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 31, 2021) | May 14, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +136 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 27, 2035 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 27, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,710,179 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 11,030,685 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,720,960 | this patent Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 11,455,683 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 12,026,773 | In force no later than May 2035 | no later than May 2035 |
| Application 18/197,873 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 12,086,878 | In force no later than May 2035 | no later than May 2035 |
| Application 18/827,743 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 2021 Reel 58490, frame 38 | Levchin, Max; Novoa, Roberto; Stevens, Andrew Gettings; Ligon, Aaron Ng | Affirm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 9, 2023 Reel 63581, frame 120 | Beckmann, Christopher | Affirm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 15, 2023 Reel 63639, frame 596 | Arias, Manuel De Jesus | Affirm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 18, 2023 Reel 63918, frame 586 | Kaditz, Jeff | Affirm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2035
Term ends Sep 27, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 136 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite 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
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.