Also listed on Triplay, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jan 15, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 25, 2024
Held by Alarm.com Incorporated
Filed Dec 4, 2007 as application 11/999,094 · Granted Jan 8, 2013
Base term plus 934 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2027
Clock starts
Jun 25, 2004
Jun 25, 2004
Term ends
Jan 15, 2027
Jan 15, 2027
Granted
Jan 8, 2013
Jan 8, 2013
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
934
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.
74
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 934 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 25, 2004, when application 10/877,109, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 4, 2007) | Jun 25, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +934 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 15, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 15, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,366,544 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Application 10/816,082 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/816,364 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,161,097 | Term ended no later than Jul 2026 | no later than Jul 2026 |
| US 8,200,744 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,335,814 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 7,317,898 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| Application 10/844,613 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2013 Reel 30405, frame 487 | Searete LLC | The Invention Science Fund I, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 2, 2015 Reel 35120, frame 862 | Triplay, Inc. | Fortress Credit Co. LLC | Security Interest |
| May 14, 2015 Reel 35643, frame 702 | Invention Science Fund I, LLC; Searete LLC | Triplay, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 18, 2020 Reel 52156, frame 955 | Fortress Credit Co. LLC | Triplay, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 5, 2020 Reel 53411, frame 805 | Triplay, Inc. | JTT Investment Partners, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 5, 2023 Reel 62279, frame 900 | JTT Investment Partners, LLC | Alarm.com Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2027
Term ends Jan 15, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 934 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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