Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 20, 2026 (Barclays Bank PLC).

Term ends Dec 7, 2037 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Carvana, LLC

Filed Dec 19, 2023 as application 18/545,424 · Granted May 27, 2025

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Dec 7, 2037

2017 2037

Clock starts
Dec 7, 2017

Term ends
Dec 7, 2037

Granted
May 27, 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.

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: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Dec 7, 2017, when application 15/834,374, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 19, 2023)	Dec 7, 2037	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	None on record	no cap applied	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	0 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Dec 7, 2037	High confidence

This family

US 10,939,023	In force Apr 2038	Apr 2038
US 11,856,282	In force Sep 2038	Sep 2038
US 12,316,945	this patent Dec 2037	Dec 2037
Application 19/202,963	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
Dec 19, 2023 Reel 65912, frame 718	Scheich, Davo	Ovad Custom Stages, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 19, 2023 Reel 65912, frame 762	Ovad Custom Stages, LLC	Carvana, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 20, 2026 Reel 76233, frame 885	Carvana, LLC	Barclays Bank PLC	Patent Security Agreement

Sources

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What's changing

Dec 2037

Term ends Dec 7, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Citations

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