Also listed on Inphonic, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 12, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 20, 2025
Held by Walmart Apollo, LLC
Filed Jun 20, 2005 as application 11/156,977 · Granted May 8, 2012
Base term plus 1361 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2029
Clock starts
Jun 20, 2005
Jun 20, 2005
Term ends
Mar 12, 2029
Mar 12, 2029
Granted
May 8, 2012
May 8, 2012
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
1,361
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
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 1361 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jun 20, 2005, when this application, 11/156,977, was filed | Jun 20, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1361 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 12, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 12, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,175,966 | this patent Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2006/023913 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 13/442,626 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2005 Reel 16759, frame 258 | Steinberg, Daid A.; Bennett, Frank; Sarbacher, Gaylyn | Inphonic, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 22, 2006 Reel 18668, frame 330 | Inphonic, Inc. | Citicorp North America, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Dec 21, 2007 Reel 20279, frame 779 | Adeptio Inpc Holdings LLC; Simplexity, LLC | Adeptio Funding, LLC; Adeptio Funding Parallel, LLC | Security Agreement |
| Dec 21, 2007 Reel 20279, frame 872 | Inphonic, Inc. | Simplexity, LLC C/O Versa Capital Management, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 21, 2007 reel/frame not recorded | Adeptio Inpc Holdings LLC; Simplexity, LLC | Adeptio Funding, LLC | Security Agreement |
| Dec 21, 2007 reel/frame not recorded | Adeptio Inpc Holdings LLC; Simplexity, LLC | Adeptio Funding Parallel, LLC | Security Agreement |
| Jan 15, 2008 Reel 20362, frame 744 | Citicorp North America, Inc., as Administrative Agent, as Assignee | Inphonic, Inc. | Release by Secured Party by 12/13/2007 Bankruptcy Court Sale Order |
| Dec 15, 2009 Reel 23649, frame 762 | Adeptio Funding, LLC; Adeptio Funding Parallel, LLC | Fifth Third Bank | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 15, 2009 Reel 23649, frame 870 | Simplexity, LLC | Fifth Third Bank | Security Agreement |
| Jun 13, 2014 Reel 33098, frame 621 | Simplexity, LLC | Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 16, 2018 Reel 45951, frame 472 | Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | Walmart Apollo, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2029
Term ends Mar 12, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1361 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
48
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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