Term ends Sep 11, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 11, 2035
Held by Id.me, LLC
Filed May 12, 2023 as application 18/316,493 · Granted Feb 4, 2025
Base term plus 34 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015
Term ends
Sep 11, 2035
Sep 11, 2035
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
34
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 10,142,338, US 11,178,146, US 11,689,529.
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 34 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 Sep 11, 2015, when application 14/851,235, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 12, 2023) | Sep 11, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +34 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 15, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,142,338, US 11,178,146, US 11,689,529) | capped to Sep 11, 2035 | 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 | Sep 11, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,142,338 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 11,178,146 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 11,736,482 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 11,689,529 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 12,218,940 | this patent Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 12,212,567 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| Application 18/990,630 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/999,053 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2023 Reel 63908, frame 769 | Hall, Blake; Suurhans, Tanel | Id.me, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 22, 2025 Reel 69989, frame 493 | Id.me, Inc. | Ares Capital Corporation, As Administrative Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| May 9, 2025 Reel 71248, frame 794 | Id.me, Inc. | Id.me, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2035
Term ends Sep 11, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 34 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 10,142,338, US 11,178,146, US 11,689,529.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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