Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 3, 2022 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).

Term ended Mar 31, 2026 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by McAfee, LLC

Filed Oct 3, 2013 as application 14/045,208 · Granted Feb 21, 2017

Base term plus 4 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Mar 31, 2026

2006 2026

Clock starts
Mar 27, 2006

Term ended
Mar 31, 2026

Granted
Feb 21, 2017

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

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 7,895,573, to Mar 31, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

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.

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 4 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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.

Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Mar 27, 2006, when application 11/277,596, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 3, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Mar 27, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	A parent in the chain could not be resolved	dated from this application's own claim	Medium confidence
Patent term adjustment	+4 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Mar 31, 2026	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,895,573)	resolves to Mar 31, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 31, 2026	Medium confidence

This family

US 7,895,573	In force Dec 2029	Dec 2029
US 9,576,142	this patent Mar 2026	Mar 2026
US 10,360,382	Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023	Jul 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
Aug 24, 2017 Reel 43665, frame 918	McAfee, Inc.	McAfee, LLC	Change of Name and Entity Conversion
Jan 12, 2018 Reel 45055, frame 786	McAfee, LLC	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Security Interest
Jan 12, 2018 Reel 45056, frame 676	McAfee, LLC	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Security Interest
Oct 22, 2020 Reel 54206, frame 593	McAfee, LLC	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045056 Frame 0676. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.
Oct 22, 2020 Reel 55854, frame 47	McAfee, LLC	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045055 Frame 786. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.
Oct 26, 2020 Reel 54238, frame 1	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent	McAfee, LLC	Release of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045055/0786
Mar 2, 2022 Reel 59354, frame 213	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent	McAfee, LLC	Release of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045056/0676
Mar 3, 2022 Reel 59354, frame 335	McAfee, LLC	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Jun 23, 2022 Reel 60792, frame 307	McAfee, LLC	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent	Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Patent Titles and Remove Duplicates in the Schedule Previously Recorded at Reel: 059354 Frame: 0335. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

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Note

The 4 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 7,895,573, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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