Term ended Jan 7, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 12, 2021
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Oct 3, 2022.
Held by Capital One Services, LLC
Filed Dec 6, 2006 as application 11/634,194 · Granted Aug 31, 2010
Base term plus 329 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jan 7, 2022
2001
2026
Clock starts
Feb 12, 2001
Feb 12, 2001
Term ended
Jan 7, 2022
Jan 7, 2022
Granted
Aug 31, 2010
Aug 31, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
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
329
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
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 runs 329 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Feb 12, 2001, when application 09/780,468, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 6, 2006) | Feb 12, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +329 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 7, 2022 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Oct 3, 2022, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 7, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,689,502 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,788,170 | this patent Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
| US 7,904,384 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 8,370,255 | Term ended Feb 2021 | Feb 2021 |
| US 8,898,081 | Term ended Feb 2021 | Feb 2021 |
| Application 14/171,631 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/814,107 | Abandoned 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2015 Reel 36136, frame 481 | Lilly, Joseph D.; Ruh, Colin J.; York, Jeff G.; Walker, Philip G. | Capital One Financial Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 23, 2018 Reel 45127, frame 452 | Capital One Financial Corporation | Capital One Services, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 329 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
51
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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