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US 9,582,237 Lapsed on the fee record
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Collateral for a security interest recorded Nov 17, 2017 (Partners for Growth V, L.P.).

Lapsed Feb 28, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Nov 21, 2014 as application 14/550,685 · Granted Feb 28, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 71 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 28, 2025
2014 2035
Clock starts
Nov 21, 2014
No longer in force
Feb 28, 2025
Granted
Feb 28, 2017
Term would have run to
Jan 31, 2035
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
71
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
5
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Jan 31, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 71 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 21, 2014, when this application, 14/550,685, was filedNov 21, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+71 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 31, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Feb 28, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 28, 2025High confidence

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US 9,582,237this patent
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US 9,164,722Lapsed on the fee record
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US 10,248,372Lapsed on the fee record
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US 10,871,932Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2024
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US 11,531,511In force
no later than Nov 2034
no later than Nov 2034
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
Jan 21, 2015
Reel 34778, frame 920
Hall, William Y.Ultravision Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 17, 2017
Reel 44166, frame 233
Ultravision Technologies, LLCPartners for Growth V, L.P.Security Interest
Jan 4, 2021
Reel 54887, frame 804
Partners for Growth V, L.P.Longford Capital Fund II, LPAssignment of Security Interest in Patent Collateral
Mar 25, 2021
Reel 56583, frame 944
Ultravision Technologies, LLCPartners for Growth V, L.P.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Patent No. 8840413 Previously Recorded at Reel: 044166 Frame: 0233. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest .

Sources

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

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