Lapsed Dec 1, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 2, 2031
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Verimatrix
Filed Oct 31, 2013 as application 14/115,020 · Granted Dec 1, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 232 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 1, 2023
2011
2031
Clock starts
May 2, 2011
May 2, 2011
No longer in force
Dec 1, 2023
Dec 1, 2023
Granted
Dec 1, 2015
Dec 1, 2015
Term would have run to
Dec 20, 2031
Dec 20, 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
232
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,813,246, to Dec 20, 2031. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
4
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 Dec 20, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 232 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 2, 2011, when application 13/099,112, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 31, 2013) | May 2, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +232 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 20, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,813,246) | resolves to Dec 20, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 1, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 1, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 13/099,112 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,813,246 | In force Apr 2032 | Apr 2032 |
| US 9,202,024 | this patent Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
3 of 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 2013 Reel 31546, frame 101 | Hierro, Oscar; Domenici, Guido | Authentec, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 5, 2013 Reel 31546, frame 223 | Authentec, Inc. | Inside Secure | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 27, 2019 Reel 48449, frame 887 | Inside Secure | Glas Sas, As Security Agent | Security Interest |
| Oct 7, 2019 Reel 50647, frame 428 | Inside Secure | Verimatrix | Change of Name |
| Oct 16, 2019 Reel 50733, frame 3 | Verimatrix | Verimatrix | Change of Address |
Sources
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Note
The 232 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,813,246, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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