Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 5, 2021 (Horizon Technology Finance Corporation).
Lapsed Jun 13, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 23, 2035
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Liqid Inc.
Filed Apr 23, 2015 as application 14/694,578 · Granted Jun 13, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 148 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 13, 2025
2015
2035
Clock starts
Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015
No longer in force
Jun 13, 2025
Jun 13, 2025
Granted
Jun 13, 2017
Jun 13, 2017
Term would have run to
Sep 18, 2035
Sep 18, 2035
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
148
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.
13
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 18, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 148 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Apr 23, 2015, when this application, 14/694,578, was filed | Apr 23, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +148 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 18, 2035 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 13, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 13, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,114,784 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 9,678,910 | this patent Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2015/027608 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,467,166 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 10,474,608 | In force no later than Sep 2035 | no later than Sep 2035 |
| US 10,037,296 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| Application 16/048,449 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,733,130 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2015 Reel 35483, frame 332 | Breakstone, Jason; Long, Christopher | Liqid Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 6, 2016 Reel 39642, frame 680 | Liqid, Inc. | Kingston Digital, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Feb 13, 2019 Reel 49896, frame 354 | Kingston Digital, Inc. | Liqid, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 3, 2019 Reel 50630, frame 636 | Liqid Inc. | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | Security Interest |
| Jan 5, 2021 Reel 54900, frame 539 | Liqid Inc. | Horizon Technology Finance Corporation | Security Interest |
| Apr 16, 2021 Reel 55953, frame 860 | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | Liqid Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 148 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
62
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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