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US 8,452,231 In force
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Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 13, 2020 (Live Oak Banking Company).

Term ends Nov 11, 2029 · High confidence

Filed Nov 17, 2008 as application 12/279,814 · Granted May 28, 2013
Base term plus 1013 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2007 2029
Clock starts
Feb 2, 2007
Term ends
Nov 11, 2029
Granted
May 28, 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
1,013
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.
2
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 1013 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 2, 2007, when application PCT/US2007/061567, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 17, 2008)Feb 2, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1013 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 11, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 11, 2029High confidence

This family

US 8,452,231this patent
Nov 2029
Nov 2029
1 of 2 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Apr 15, 2009
Reel 22549, frame 558
Mohebbi, BehzadNextivity, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 6, 2015
Reel 34646, frame 230
Nextivity, Inc.Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc.Security Interest
Jan 6, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Nextivity, Inc.Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc.Security Interest
Jan 6, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Nextivity, Inc.Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc.Security Interest
Jan 9, 2017
Reel 41306, frame 273
Nextivity, Inc.Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc.Security Interest
Jan 9, 2017
reel/frame not recorded
Nextivity, Inc.Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc.Security Interest
Jan 9, 2017
reel/frame not recorded
Nextivity, Inc.Venture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc.Security Interest
Dec 13, 2020
Reel 54711, frame 816
Nextivity, Inc.Live Oak Banking CompanySecurity Interest
Jan 8, 2021
Reel 54863, frame 645
Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc.Nextivity, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Dec 22, 2022
Reel 62180, frame 367
Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc.Nextivity, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Dec 23, 2022
Reel 62213, frame 590
Nextivity, Inc.Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Security Interest
Dec 28, 2022
Reel 62222, frame 344
Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc.Nextivity, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 7, 2024
Reel 67666, frame 1
Nextivity, Inc.Wti Fund X, Inc.Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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