Term ended Oct 1, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 1, 2024
Held by Everi Payments Inc.
Filed Dec 7, 2021 as application 17/544,885 · Granted Aug 22, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Oct 1, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Oct 1, 2004
Oct 1, 2004
Term ended
Oct 1, 2024
Oct 1, 2024
Granted
Aug 22, 2023
Aug 22, 2023
base term
after the term ends
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 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 10,275,983, US 10,839,647, US 11,205,321, US 8,556,707, US 9,324,210, to Oct 1, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
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 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. 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 Oct 1, 2004, when application 10/956,644, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 7, 2021) | Oct 1, 2024 | 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 10,275,983, US 10,839,647, US 11,205,321, US 8,556,707, US 9,324,210) | resolves to Oct 1, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 1, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,556,707 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 9,324,210 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 10,275,983 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 10,839,647 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 11,205,321 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 11,488,446 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 11,735,003 | this patent Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Application 18/225,259 | Abandoned 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2022 Reel 59778, frame 249 | Everi Payments Inc. | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Jun 27, 2023 Reel 64085, frame 626 | Potts, Craig; Beer, Richard | Cash Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 27, 2023 Reel 64085, frame 718 | Cash Systems, Inc. | Global Cash Access, Inc. | Merger |
| Jun 27, 2023 Reel 64085, frame 780 | Newsom, Victor | Everi Payments Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 27, 2023 Reel 64144, frame 445 | Global Cash Access, Inc. | Everi Payments Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,275,983, US 10,839,647, US 11,205,321, US 8,556,707, US 9,324,210, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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