Lapsed Dec 3, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 27, 2030
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by DST Technologies, Inc.
Filed Aug 19, 2010 as application 12/859,328 · Granted Dec 3, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 533 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 3, 2021
2010
2031
Clock starts
Jan 27, 2010
Jan 27, 2010
No longer in force
Dec 3, 2021
Dec 3, 2021
Granted
Dec 3, 2013
Dec 3, 2013
Term would have run to
Jul 14, 2031
Jul 14, 2031
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
533
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
11
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jul 14, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 533 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jan 27, 2010, when application 12/695,009, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 19, 2010) | Jan 27, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +533 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 14, 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 3, 2021 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 3, 2021 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,832,853 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 8,824,785 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 8,600,173 | this patent Dec 2021 | Dec 2021 |
| US 8,948,535 | In force Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| US 9,239,952 | In force no later than Aug 2031 | no later than Aug 2031 |
| US 9,224,039 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| US 9,239,953 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| US 9,240,999 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2011 Reel 26550, frame 549 | Ives, Paul M.; Esposito, Deni; Clark, Peter E.; Gentry, Michael V. | International Financial Data Services (Canada) Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 6, 2011 Reel 26550, frame 835 | International Financial Data Services (Canada) Limited | DST Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 533 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
55
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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