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US 11,861,611 Term ended
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Term ended Nov 22, 2025 · High confidence

Filed Oct 17, 2022 as application 17/967,638 · Granted Jan 2, 2024
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Nov 22, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Nov 22, 2005
Term ended
Nov 22, 2025
Granted
Jan 2, 2024
base term after the term ends 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 10,963,874, US 11,507,951, to Nov 22, 2025. 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.
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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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 22, 2005, when application 11/285,053, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 17, 2022)Nov 22, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,963,874, US 11,507,951)resolves to Nov 22, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo maintenance fee can end the term earlyterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 22, 2025High confidence

This family

US 7,866,548In force
Aug 2028
Aug 2028
Application 11/741,426Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 10,248,951In force
Mar 2029
Mar 2029
US 8,464,937Term ended
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
US 10,671,999Term ended
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
US 10,963,874Term ended
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
US 11,507,951Term ended
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
US 11,861,611this patent
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Apr 17, 2023
Reel 63344, frame 240
James, Vicki L.; Erdmann, Jeffrey JayMetavante CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 17, 2023
Reel 63344, frame 312
Fis Payments LLCFidelity Information Services, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 17, 2023
Reel 63349, frame 67
Metavante CorporationFis Payments LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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