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US 12,689,631 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Mar 8, 2037 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 10,880,322), so the cap could be lower.

Filed Sep 4, 2020 as application 17/012,731 · Granted Jul 21, 2026
Base term plus 472 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2018 2038
Clock starts
May 15, 2018
Term ends
Mar 8, 2037
Granted
Jul 21, 2026
base term after the term ends 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
472
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 10,880,322.
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.
15
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 472 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: 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 May 15, 2018, when application 15/980,566, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 4, 2020)May 15, 2038High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+472 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 30, 2039High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,880,322)capped to Mar 8, 2037Medium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 8, 2037Medium confidence

This family

US 9,847,973Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2025
Dec 2025
US 10,805,270In force
Mar 2037
Mar 2037
Application PCT/US2017/039114PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,326,735In force
Mar 2037
Mar 2037
US 11,936,604In force
Mar 2037
Mar 2037
Application PCT/US2017/057924PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,805,314In force
no later than Sep 2038
no later than Sep 2038
Application PCT/US2018/032985PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
8 of 15 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Nov 24, 2021
Reel 58208, frame 549
Jakobsson, Bjorn Markus; Kennedy, Scot Free; Peterson, Patrick RichardAgari Data, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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