Term ends May 12, 2031 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 4, 2030
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Alarm.com Incorporated
Filed Dec 22, 2020 as application 17/130,412 · Granted Aug 29, 2023
Base term plus 220 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2031
Clock starts
Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010
Term ends
May 12, 2031
May 12, 2031
Granted
Aug 29, 2023
Aug 29, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
220
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 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
10
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 220 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 1 maintenance fees are 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 Oct 4, 2010, when application 12/897,359, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 22, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 4, 2030 | 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 | +220 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 12, 2031 | 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 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 12, 2031 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,675,071 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 8,520,072 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 8,810,657 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 8,937,661 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 9,478,112 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 10,388,134 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 10,902,707 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 11,741,805 | this patent May 2031 | May 2031 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 2021 Reel 54816, frame 243 | Slavin, Alison Jane; McCarthy, Robert J., JR.; Hutz, David James; Trundle, Stephen Scott; Martin, Jean-paul | Alarm.com Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2031
Term ends May 12, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 220 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
35
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
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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.