Also listed on Shopkeep Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends Feb 28, 2031 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 11,030,600), so the cap could be lower.

Held by Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc.

Filed May 4, 2021 as application 17/307,887 · Granted Nov 28, 2023

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Feb 28, 2031

2011 2031

Clock starts
Feb 28, 2011

Term ends
Feb 28, 2031

Granted
Nov 28, 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 11,030,600, to Feb 28, 2031. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

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.

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 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 Feb 28, 2011, when application 13/037,048, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 4, 2021)	Feb 28, 2031	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 11,030,600)	resolves to Feb 28, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no change	Medium 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	Feb 28, 2031	Medium confidence

This family

US 9,317,844	In force Feb 2031	Feb 2031
US 9,965,755	In force Apr 2031	Apr 2031
Application 14/639,877	Abandoned not computed	not computed
Application 14/676,146	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 11,030,598	In force Jul 2034	Jul 2034
US 10,735,304	In force Aug 2031	Aug 2031
Application 15/065,455	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 10,699,261	In force Apr 2031	Apr 2031

8 of 14 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
May 25, 2021 Reel 56342, frame 809	Richelson, Jason; Ordway, Jason	Shopkeep.com, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 25, 2021 Reel 56366, frame 646	Shopkeep.com, Inc.	Shopkeep Inc.	Change of Name
May 25, 2021 Reel 56343, frame 34	Shopkeep Inc.; Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc.	Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc.	Merger and Change of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

What's changing

Feb 2031

Term ends Feb 28, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,030,600, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

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.

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