Term ends Mar 25, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 2, 2035
Held by Vpay, Inc.
Filed Sep 1, 2022 as application 17/901,409 · Granted Mar 25, 2025
Base term plus 205 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2036
Clock starts
Sep 2, 2015
Sep 2, 2015
Term ends
Mar 25, 2036
Mar 25, 2036
Granted
Mar 25, 2025
Mar 25, 2025
base term
patent term adjustment
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
205
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,740,755, US 11,468,442, to Mar 25, 2036. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
6
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 205 days past its 20-year base term on 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 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 2, 2015, when application 14/843,508, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 1, 2022) | Sep 2, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +205 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 25, 2036 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,740,755, US 11,468,442) | resolves to Mar 25, 2036, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Mar 25, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 62/044,446 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 14/843,508 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,740,755 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| US 11,468,442 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
| US 12,260,405 | this patent Mar 2036 | Mar 2036 |
| US 12,749,056 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2022 Reel 61009, frame 431 | Maxwell, Richard A.; Allen, Robert M. | Vpay, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Mar 2036
Term ends Mar 25, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 205 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,740,755, US 11,468,442, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.