Collateral for a security interest recorded May 17, 2024 (First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company).
Term ends Jul 11, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 1, 2028
Held by Truecontext Inc.
Filed Jul 9, 2009 as application 12/522,688 · Granted Jul 26, 2016
Base term plus 1287 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2031
Clock starts
Jan 1, 2008
Jan 1, 2008
Term ends
Jul 11, 2031
Jul 11, 2031
Granted
Jul 26, 2016
Jul 26, 2016
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
1,287
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 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 1287 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 1, 2008, when application PCT/IB2008/000052, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 9, 2009) | Jan 1, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1287 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 11, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 11, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,401,966 | this patent Jul 2031 | Jul 2031 |
| Application 15/188,249 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 2012 Reel 28946, frame 254 | Chene, Marc; Peyton, Liam; McGuire, Kevin; Drummond, Brant | Truecontext Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 17, 2016 Reel 40358, frame 316 | Truecontext Corporation | Prontoforms Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 2, 2020 Reel 54242, frame 845 | Prontoforms Inc. | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | Security Interest |
| Nov 23, 2023 Reel 65675, frame 187 | Prontoforms Inc. | Truecontext Inc. | Change of Name |
| May 17, 2024 Reel 67442, frame 832 | TC Pledge Intermediateco Inc.; TC Pledgeco Inc.; 1000827877 Ontario Inc.; Truecontext Corporation; Truecontext Inc.; Truecontext, Inc. | First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company | Security Interest |
| May 17, 2024 Reel 67450, frame 151 | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | Truecontext Inc. (Formerly Known as Prontoforms Inc.) | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2031
Term ends Jul 11, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1287 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
78
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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