Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 1, 2025 (Bain Capital Credit, LP).
Term ends Oct 9, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 9, 2034
Held by Am Conservation Group
Filed Oct 21, 2022 as application 17/971,372 · Granted Feb 4, 2025
Base term plus 89 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014
Term ends
Oct 9, 2034
Oct 9, 2034
Granted
Feb 4, 2025
Feb 4, 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
89
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,301,800, US 10,753,071, US 11,492,787, US 9,737,899.
0 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
8
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 89 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 2 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 9, 2014, when application 14/511,007, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 21, 2022) | Oct 9, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +89 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 6, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,301,800, US 10,753,071, US 11,492,787, US 9,737,899) | capped to Oct 9, 2034 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 9, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,737,899 | In force Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
| Application 15/074,875 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,066,376 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,301,800 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,753,071 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 11,492,787 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 12,215,487 | this patent Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| Application 19/027,410 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2023 Reel 64247, frame 149 | Doss, Jeffrey S.; Swanson, Jason; Pinson, Heather L.; Lockhart, John | Evolve Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 22, 2023 Reel 64995, frame 919 | Evolve Technologies, LLC | Am Conservation Group | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 1, 2025 Reel 71905, frame 305 | Am Conservation Group, Inc.; Planetecosystems, LLC | Bain Capital Credit, LP | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Oct 2034
Term ends Oct 9, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 89 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,301,800, US 10,753,071, US 11,492,787, US 9,737,899.
Citations
0
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