Surrendered on reissue Aug 6, 2013 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 20, 2024
Why Medium: No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds.
Surrendered on reissue Aug 6, 2013 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE44,419.
Held by Waystar Technologies, Inc.
Filed Feb 20, 2004 as application 10/783,324 · Granted May 25, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1769 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Surrendered Aug 6, 2013
2004
2028
Clock starts
Feb 20, 2004
Feb 20, 2004
No longer in force
Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013
Granted
May 25, 2010
May 25, 2010
Term would have run to
Dec 24, 2028
Dec 24, 2028
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
1,769
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
Not on record
Maintenance fees
USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse.
2
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 1769 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events, so no fee is counted as paid or unpaid. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 20, 2004, when this application, 10/783,324, was filed | Feb 20, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1769 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 24, 2028 | 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 | No fee events in USPTO's record of this patent. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse | no change | Medium confidence |
| Reissue | US RE44,419 issued Aug 6, 2013, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252) | surrendered Aug 6, 2013 | High confidence |
| Surrendered on reissue | The steps above, in order | Aug 6, 2013 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,725,335 | this patent Aug 2013 | Aug 2013 |
| US RE44,419 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 2004 Reel 15025, frame 762 | Goodwin, Bently C. | Remitdata, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 21, 2008 Reel 20390, frame 974 | Remitdata, Inc., a Tennessee Corporation | Remitdata, Inc., a Delaware Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 15, 2017 Reel 43295, frame 391 | Remitdata, Inc. | Golub Capital LLC, as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Sep 23, 2020 Reel 53863, frame 798 | Golub Capital LLC | Remitdata, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Sep 23, 2020 Reel 53863, frame 815 | Remitdata, Inc. | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Patent Security Agreement |
| Sep 29, 2020 Reel 53924, frame 6 | Remitdata, Inc. | Glas Americas LLC | Patent Security Agreement |
| Jan 19, 2022 Reel 58686, frame 849 | Remitdata, Inc. | Waystar Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 12, 2024 Reel 66552, frame 936 | Glas Americas LLC, as Collateral Agent | Waystar Technologies, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
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Note
The 1769 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
11
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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