Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 15, 2026 (Fidus Investment Corporation).
Term ends Aug 25, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 23, 2024
Why Medium: No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds.
Held by Autoalert, LLC
Filed Nov 23, 2004 as application 10/996,122 · Granted Nov 2, 2010
Base term plus 1005 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2027
Clock starts
Nov 23, 2004
Nov 23, 2004
Term ends
Aug 25, 2027
Aug 25, 2027
Granted
Nov 2, 2010
Nov 2, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,005
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 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
12
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 1005 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Nov 23, 2004, when this application, 10/996,122, was filed | Nov 23, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1005 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 25, 2027 | 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 event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds | In force | Medium confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 25, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,827,099 | this patent Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 8,005,752 | Term ended Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 8,095,461 | Term ended Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 8,086,529 | Term ended Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 8,396,791 | Term ended Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| Application 13/789,510 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 13/797,803 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 13/831,015 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 12 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2005 Reel 16136, frame 534 | Cotton, Jeffrey S. | Autoalert, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 31, 2014 Reel 32568, frame 900 | Autoalert, LLC | Obsidian Agency Services, Inc. | Patent Security Agreement |
| Apr 8, 2014 Reel 32640, frame 806 | Autoalert, Inc. | Autoalert, LLC | Conversion |
| Mar 5, 2015 Reel 35133, frame 671 | Autoalert, LLC | Dominion Dealer Solutions, LLC; Autobase, Inc. | Memorandum of License Agreement |
| Mar 5, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Autoalert, LLC | Dominion Dealer Solutions, LLC | Memorandum of License Agreement |
| Mar 5, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Autoalert, LLC | Autobase, Inc. | Memorandum of License Agreement |
| May 19, 2015 Reel 35731, frame 856 | Autoalert, LLC | Dealersocket, Inc. | Memorandum of License Agreement |
| Apr 3, 2023 Reel 63211, frame 479 | Autoalert, LLC | Acquiom Agency Services LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Apr 4, 2023 Reel 63217, frame 887 | Autoalert, LLC | Acquiom Agency Services LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Apr 11, 2023 Reel 63287, frame 306 | Obsidian Agency Services, Inc., as Collateral Agent | Autoalert, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 19, 2024 Reel 69408, frame 766 | Autoalert, LLC | Western Alliance Bank | Security Agreement |
| Apr 9, 2026 Reel 74325, frame 839 | Acquiom Agency Services LLC | Autoalert, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 9, 2026 Reel 75458, frame 102 | Western Alliance Bank | Autoalert, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 15, 2026 Reel 74369, frame 275 | Purecars Technologies, LLC; Trupayments LLC; Autoalert, LLC | Fidus Investment Corporation | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2027
Term ends Aug 25, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1005 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
29
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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