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System and Method of Obtaining and Using a Vehicle Identifier for Providing Information to an End User

US 9,020,687 Term ended
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Term ended Jul 14, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Jan 14, 2011 as application 12/930,735 · Granted Apr 28, 2015
Base term plus 102 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Jul 14, 2026
2006 2026
Clock starts
Apr 3, 2006
Term ended
Jul 14, 2026
Granted
Apr 28, 2015
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
102
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
30
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 102 days past its 20-year base term on 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 3, 2006, when application 11/396,843, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 14, 2011)Apr 3, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+102 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 14, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 14, 2026High confidence

This family

Application 11/427,706Abandoned
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US 7,899,583In force
Sep 2027
Sep 2027
US 8,836,580In force
Nov 2027
Nov 2027
US 8,896,485In force
Jan 2029
Jan 2029
US 7,924,149Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
US 8,866,673In force
Jan 2028
Jan 2028
US 9,020,687this patent
Jul 2026
Jul 2026
US 8,941,485Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
8 of 30 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
May 19, 2014
Reel 32926, frame 257
Mendelson, EhudGamba Group LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 6, 2019
Reel 50633, frame 943
Gamba Group LimitedBlue Umbrella LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 29, 2023
Reel 65702, frame 137
Blue Umbrella LLCGamba Group Holdings LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 20, 2025
Reel 72975, frame 747
Gamba Group Holdings LLCImpact Vision LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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