Method and System for Providing Password-free, Hardware-rooted, ASIC-based Authentication of a Human to a Mobile Device using Biometrics with a Protected, Local Template to Release Trusted Credentials to Relying Parties

US 9,286,457 Lapsed on the fee record

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Lapsed Mar 15, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Biocrypt Access LLC

Filed Mar 6, 2014 as application 14/198,695 · Granted Mar 15, 2016

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 69 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Mar 15, 2020

2005 2026

Clock starts
Jun 14, 2005

No longer in force
Mar 15, 2020

Granted
Mar 15, 2016

Term would have run to
Aug 22, 2025

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

0 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.

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Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Jun 14, 2005, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Mar 6, 2014)	Jun 14, 2025	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+69 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 22, 2025	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	0 of 2 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Mar 15, 2020	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 15, 2020	High confidence

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Method and System for Providing Password-free, Hardware-rooted, ASIC-based Authentication of a Human to a Mobile Device using Biometrics with a Protected, Local Template to Release Trusted Credentials to Relying Parties

Lapsed Mar 15, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence

20-year base term ended Jun 14, 2025

How we calculated this date

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