Term ends Jan 30, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 16, 2029
Held by Venturi Wireless, Inc.
Filed Jan 6, 2012 as application 13/345,550 · Granted Jan 20, 2015
Base term plus 106 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2009
2030
Clock starts
Oct 16, 2009
Oct 16, 2009
Term ends
Jan 30, 2030
Jan 30, 2030
Granted
Jan 20, 2015
Jan 20, 2015
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
106
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 106 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 Oct 16, 2009, when application 12/581,018, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 6, 2012) | Oct 16, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +106 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 30, 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 | Jan 30, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,116,225 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| US 8,937,877 | this patent Jan 2030 | Jan 2030 |
| US 9,674,729 | In force no later than Oct 2029 | no later than Oct 2029 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2013 Reel 30001, frame 894 | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Venturi IP LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 14, 2013 Reel 30004, frame 1 | Venturi IP LLC | Fortress Credit Corp. | Security Agreement |
| Aug 20, 2014 Reel 33577, frame 71 | Ketheesan, Kanapathipillai; Choi, David | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 17, 2015 Reel 37058, frame 411 | Venturi IP LLC | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2030
Term ends Jan 30, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 106 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2015 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.