Term ended Sep 16, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 16, 2033
Held by Vpay, Inc.
Filed May 19, 2023 as application 18/199,590 · Granted Oct 27, 2026
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Sep 16, 2023
2013
2033
Clock starts
Sep 16, 2013
Sep 16, 2013
Term ended
Sep 16, 2023
Sep 16, 2023
Granted
Oct 27, 2026
Oct 27, 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,004,063, US 8,674,431.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
7
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. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 16, 2013, when application 14/028,040, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 19, 2023) | Sep 16, 2033 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,004,063, US 8,674,431) | capped to Sep 16, 2023 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 16, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,694,431 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| Application 14/179,132 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 62/038,240 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 14/827,861 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,004,063 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 11,663,582 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 12,775,930 | this patent Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2023 Reel 63774, frame 426 | Allen, Robert M. | Vpay, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,004,063, US 8,674,431.
Citations
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