Also listed on Verve Wireless, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 9, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 27, 2028
Held by Verve Group, Inc. and Verve Wireless, Inc.
Filed Jun 27, 2008 as application 12/163,780 · Granted Aug 13, 2013
Base term plus 620 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2030
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2008
Jun 27, 2008
Term ends
Mar 9, 2030
Mar 9, 2030
Granted
Aug 13, 2013
Aug 13, 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
620
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.
4
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 620 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 27, 2008, when this application, 12/163,780, was filed | Jun 27, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +620 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 9, 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 | Mar 9, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,510,773 | this patent Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 8,863,178 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 9,449,334 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| Application 15/269,819 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2009 Reel 23380, frame 963 | Abou-rizk, Mitri; Kenney, Thomas C.; Collison, Brian M.; McCall, Nathan A.; Johnston, Eric M. | Verve Wireless, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 31, 2018 Reel 46285, frame 87 | Verve Wireless, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest - Senior Loan |
| May 31, 2018 Reel 46286, frame 291 | Verve Wireless, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest - Mezzanine Loan |
| Feb 19, 2020 Reel 51865, frame 10 | Verve Wireless, Inc. | Verve Wireless (ABC), LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 19, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Verve Wireless (ABC), LLC | Verve Group, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 19, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Verve Wireless (ABC), LLC | Verve Wireless, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 19, 2020 Reel 51865, frame 123 | Verve Wireless (ABC), LLC | Verve Group, Inc.; Verve Wireless, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 13, 2020 Reel 54065, frame 566 | Verve Wireless (ABC), LLC | Verve Group, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Previously Recorded on Reel 051865 Frame 0123. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Sole Assignee Is Verve Group, Inc. |
| Dec 1, 2020 Reel 54559, frame 239 | Verve Group, Inc. | Verve Group, Inc. | Change of Assignee Address |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2030
Term ends Mar 9, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 620 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
35
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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.