Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 15, 2026 (Fidus Investment Corporation).
Term ends Feb 7, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 17, 2037
Held by Autoalert, LLC
Filed Jan 4, 2021 as application 17/141,172 · Granted Oct 17, 2023
Base term plus 113 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2038
Clock starts
Oct 17, 2017
Oct 17, 2017
Term ends
Feb 7, 2038
Feb 7, 2038
Granted
Oct 17, 2023
Oct 17, 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
113
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,885,562, to Feb 7, 2038. 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.
4
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 113 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Oct 17, 2017, when application 15/786,540, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 4, 2021) | Oct 17, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +113 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 7, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,885,562) | resolves to Feb 7, 2038, 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 7, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,885,562 | In force Nov 2038 | Nov 2038 |
| US 10,430,848 | In force Oct 2037 | Oct 2037 |
| US 11,790,420 | this patent Feb 2038 | Feb 2038 |
| Application 18/486,093 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2023 Reel 63211, frame 479 | Autoalert, LLC | Acquiom Agency Services LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Apr 4, 2023 Reel 63217, frame 887 | Autoalert, LLC | Acquiom Agency Services LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jun 7, 2023 Reel 63887, frame 290 | Cotton, Jeffrey Stuart; Warner, Boyd Hodgson; Walls, Thomas Andrew; Zhuravchak, Levko; Milius, Dan Christian; Faulkner, Jeff Keith; Dullea, Mike Phillip | Autoalert, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 19, 2024 Reel 69408, frame 766 | Autoalert, LLC | Western Alliance Bank | Security Agreement |
| Apr 9, 2026 Reel 74325, frame 839 | Acquiom Agency Services LLC | Autoalert, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 9, 2026 Reel 75458, frame 102 | Western Alliance Bank | Autoalert, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 15, 2026 Reel 74369, frame 275 | Purecars Technologies, LLC; Trupayments LLC; Autoalert, LLC | Fidus Investment Corporation | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2038
Term ends Feb 7, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 113 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,885,562, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.