Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 2, 2021 (Prospect Capital Corporation).
Lapsed Jul 18, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 18, 2034
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Enseo, LLC
Filed May 26, 2016 as application 15/165,851 · Granted Jul 18, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 11 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Jul 18, 2025
2014
2034
Clock starts
Aug 18, 2014
Aug 18, 2014
No longer in force
Jul 18, 2025
Jul 18, 2025
Granted
Jul 18, 2017
Jul 18, 2017
Term would have run to
Aug 18, 2034
Aug 18, 2034
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
11
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,332,304, US 9,344,757, US 9,357,254, US 9,654,826, US 9,654,827.
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.
39
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 Aug 18, 2034: its 20-year base term plus 11 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Aug 18, 2014, when application 14/461,479, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 26, 2016) | Aug 18, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +11 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 29, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,332,304, US 9,344,757, US 9,357,254, US 9,654,826, US 9,654,827) | capped to Aug 18, 2034 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 18, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 18, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,357,254 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 9,712,872 | this patent Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 10,142,662 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 10,602,196 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 10,848,789 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| Application 16/600,853 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,873,767 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 10,904,582 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
8 of 39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2016 Reel 38731, frame 149 | Ogle, Vanessa; Miller, Thomas R.; Fang, William C. | Enseo, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 17, 2017 Reel 43210, frame 881 | Enseo, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Jan 27, 2021 Reel 55139, frame 530 | Enseo, Inc. | Enseo, LLC | Change of Name |
| Jun 2, 2021 Reel 56462, frame 174 | Enseo, LLC; Catapult Technologies, LLC | Prospect Capital Corporation | Security Interest |
| Jun 4, 2021 Reel 56445, frame 915 | Silicon Valley Bank | Enseo, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
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Note
The 11 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,332,304, US 9,344,757, US 9,357,254, US 9,654,826, US 9,654,827.
Citations
79
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.
How we rank
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