Term ends Mar 4, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 2, 2030
Held by Prove Identity, Inc.
Filed Jan 14, 2011 as application 13/006,806 · Granted Oct 1, 2013
Base term plus 122 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2031
Clock starts
Nov 2, 2010
Nov 2, 2010
Term ends
Mar 4, 2031
Mar 4, 2031
Granted
Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 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
122
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.
28
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 122 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 Nov 2, 2010, when application 12/938,161, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 14, 2011) | Nov 2, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +122 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 4, 2031 | 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 4, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,341,236 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 8,458,774 | In force Nov 2031 | Nov 2031 |
| US 8,549,601 | this patent Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 8,806,592 | In force Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
| US 8,789,153 | In force Apr 2032 | Apr 2032 |
| Application PCT/US2011/022482 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2011/022486 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2011/023525 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2011 Reel 26097, frame 115 | Ganesan, Ravi | Hawk and Seal Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 18, 2011 Reel 27252, frame 647 | Hawk and Seal Inc. | Authentify Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 31, 2014 Reel 32565, frame 531 | Authentify, Inc. | Jmi Services, LLC | Security Interest |
| Nov 19, 2015 Reel 37147, frame 213 | Jmi Services , LLC | Authentify, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 17, 2017 Reel 41610, frame 944 | Authentify, Inc. | Early Warning Services, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 25, 2017 Reel 43325, frame 945 | Authentify, Inc.; Authentify, LLC | Authentify, LLC | Merger and Change of Name |
| Aug 23, 2017 Reel 43649, frame 549 | Authentify, LLC | Early Warning Services, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignor Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 041610 Frame: 0944. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment . |
| Apr 20, 2020 Reel 52439, frame 416 | Hawk and Seal Inc. | Authentify, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name from Authentify Inc. to Authentify, Inc. Previously Recorded on Reel 027252 Frame 0647. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment of Assignors Interest. |
| Apr 20, 2020 Reel 52448, frame 75 | Jmi Services, LLC | Authentify, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Name of the Receiving Party on the Release of Security Interest Agreement from Authentify Inc. to Authentify, Inc. Previously Recorded on Reel 037147 Frame 0213. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interest. |
| Jun 18, 2020 Reel 52984, frame 61 | Payfone, Inc. | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Confirmatory Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Jul 8, 2020 Reel 53148, frame 191 | Early Warning Services, LLC | Payfone, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 21, 2025 Reel 70294, frame 800 | Payfone, Inc. | Prove Identity, Inc. | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Mar 2031
Term ends Mar 4, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 122 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
81
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.
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