Surrendered on reissue Jan 1, 2013 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 5, 2026
Why Medium: No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds.
Surrendered on reissue Jan 1, 2013 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE43,904 and US RE44,748.
Held by Vpay, Inc.
Filed Dec 5, 2006 as application 11/566,930 · Granted Sep 7, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 945 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Surrendered Jan 1, 2013
2006
2029
Clock starts
Dec 5, 2006
Dec 5, 2006
No longer in force
Jan 1, 2013
Jan 1, 2013
Granted
Sep 7, 2010
Sep 7, 2010
Term would have run to
Jul 7, 2029
Jul 7, 2029
base term
patent term adjustment
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
945
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.
3
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 945 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 Dec 5, 2006, when this application, 11/566,930, was filed | Dec 5, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +945 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 7, 2029 | 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 RE43,904 and US RE44,748 issued Jan 1, 2013, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252) | surrendered Jan 1, 2013 | High confidence |
| Surrendered on reissue | The steps above, in order | Jan 1, 2013 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,792,686 | this patent Jan 2013 | Jan 2013 |
| US RE43,904 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US RE44,748 | In force no later than Jul 2029 | no later than Jul 2029 |
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 15, 2006 Reel 18639, frame 681 | Allen, Robert M. | Stoneeagle Services, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 3, 2013 Reel 31334, frame 418 | Stoneeagle Services, Inc. | Metabank | Security Agreement |
| Jun 14, 2016 Reel 38906, frame 413 | Metabank | Stoneeagle Services, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 3, 2017 Reel 40829, frame 275 | Stoneeagle Services, Inc. | Comerica Bank | Security Interest |
| Jun 2, 2019 Reel 49340, frame 832 | Comerica Bank | Stoneeagle Services, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 19, 2020 Reel 54419, frame 249 | Vpay, Inc. | Stoneeagle Services, Inc. | Merger |
| Nov 19, 2020 Reel 54419, frame 373 | Stoneeagle Services, Inc. | Vpay, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 945 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
27
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.
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