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Verifying User Identities for Admission to Video Conferences

US 12,206,515 In force
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Term ends Jan 19, 2038 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Jan 22, 2024 as application 18/418,480 · Granted Jan 21, 2025
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2018 2038
Clock starts
Jan 19, 2018
Term ends
Jan 19, 2038
Granted
Jan 21, 2025
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 0 of 3 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 19, 2018, when application PCT/IB2018/000352, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 22, 2024); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jan 19, 2038High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 19, 2038Medium confidence

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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
Jan 22, 2024
Reel 66194, frame 851
Ittelson, Brendan James; Rolin, Shawn MichaelZoom Video Communications, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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