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Advanced Network Characterization

US 9,420,045 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed Aug 16, 2024 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Oct 19, 2015 as application 14/887,160 · Granted Aug 16, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 16, 2024
2005 2026
Clock starts
Sep 29, 2005
No longer in force
Aug 16, 2024
Granted
Aug 16, 2016
Term would have run to
Sep 29, 2025
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
1 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.
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 Sep 29, 2025: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. Confidence: Medium. 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 Sep 29, 2005, when application 11/239,707, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 19, 2015)Sep 29, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 16, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 16, 2024Medium confidence

This family

US 9,088,627In force
Aug 2033
Aug 2033
Application PCT/US2006/038155PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,167,053Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
US 9,420,045this patent
Aug 2024
Aug 2024
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
Oct 20, 2015
Reel 36834, frame 68
Marmolejo-meillon, Luis G.; Nelson, BarbaraIpass Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 7, 2016
Reel 38836, frame 454
Marmolejo-meillon, Luis G.; Nelson, BarbaraIpass Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 14, 2018
Reel 46094, frame 323
Ipass Inc.Fortress Credit Corp.Security Interest
Jun 20, 2018
Reel 46148, frame 555
Ipass Inc.Ipass IP LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 21, 2018
Reel 46170, frame 457
Ipass Inc.; Ipass IP LLCFortress Credit Corp.; Fip Ust LP; DBD Credit Funding LLCSecurity Interest
Jun 21, 2018
reel/frame not recorded
Ipass Inc.; Ipass IP LLCFortress Credit Corp.Security Interest
Jun 21, 2018
reel/frame not recorded
Ipass Inc.; Ipass IP LLCFip Ust LPSecurity Interest
Jun 21, 2018
reel/frame not recorded
Ipass Inc.; Ipass IP LLCDBD Credit Funding LLCSecurity Interest
Feb 28, 2019
Reel 48462, frame 641
Ipass IP LLCPost Road Administrative LLCSecurity Interest
Mar 5, 2019
Reel 48503, frame 518
Fortress Credit Corp.Ipass Inc.Release of Security Interest
Apr 29, 2020
Reel 52525, frame 357
Post Road Administrative LLCIpass IP LLCRelease of Security Interest
May 4, 2020
Reel 52564, frame 488
Fip Ust LP; DBD Credit Funding, LLCIpass Inc.; Ipass IP LLCRelease of Security Interest
May 4, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
DBD Credit Funding, LLC; Fip Ust LPIpass Inc.Release of Security Interest
May 4, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
DBD Credit Funding, LLC; Fip Ust LPIpass IP LLCRelease of Security Interest
Jun 9, 2020
Reel 52888, frame 728
Ipass IP LLCHigh Trail Investments S.A. LLC, as Collateral AgentIntellectual Property Security Agreement
Jun 13, 2023
Reel 63988, frame 501
Pareteum Corporation; Pareteum North America Corporation; Devicescape Holdings, Inc.; Ipass, Inc.; Ipass IP LLC; Pareteum Europe B.V.; Artilium Group Ltd.; Pareteum N.V.; Pareteum Asia Pte. Ltd.Channel Ventures Group, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 30, 2023
Reel 64180, frame 440
Channel Ventures Group, LLCChannel IP B.V.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

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