Term ends May 24, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 6, 2028
Held by Richrelevance, Inc.
Filed May 6, 2008 as application 12/151,376 · Granted Jan 29, 2013
Base term plus 748 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2030
Clock starts
May 6, 2008
May 6, 2008
Term ends
May 24, 2030
May 24, 2030
Granted
Jan 29, 2013
Jan 29, 2013
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
748
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 748 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 May 6, 2008, when this application, 12/151,376, was filed | May 6, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +748 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 24, 2030 | 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 | May 24, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,364,528 | this patent May 2030 | May 2030 |
| Application PCT/US2009/035893 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,924,265 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2008 Reel 21434, frame 580 | Selinger, David; Kohn, Tyler; Decourcey, Michael; Ahuja, Sundeep; Osial, James; Sunwoo, Albert | Richrelevance, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 6, 2018 Reel 47469, frame 1 | Richrelevance, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank | Security Interest |
| Dec 16, 2020 Reel 54771, frame 857 | Western Alliance Bank | Richrelevance, Inc. | Termination and Release of Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2030
Term ends May 24, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 748 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
93
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2013 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.