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Mobile Computing Device Network of Multi-Vendor, Multi-Interface Computers

US 9,741,029 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 10, 2024 (Goldman Sachs Bank USA).

Term ends Dec 18, 2029 · High confidence

Filed Apr 23, 2012 as application 13/453,811 · Granted Aug 22, 2017
Base term plus 923 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2009 2029
Clock starts
Oct 20, 2009
Term ends
Dec 18, 2029
Granted
Aug 22, 2017
base term patent term adjustment 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
923
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 8,175,913.
2 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.
3
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 923 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 20, 2009, when application 12/581,961, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 23, 2012)Oct 20, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+923 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 30, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,175,913)capped to Dec 18, 2029High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 18, 2029High confidence

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US 8,175,913In force
Dec 2029
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US 9,741,029this patent
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US 10,565,579In force
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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 25, 2015
Reel 34807, frame 693
Bellegingsmaatschappij Rostrum B.V.Venuenext, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 9, 2015
Reel 36086, frame 700
Venuenext, Inc.Pate Baird, PllcLien
Feb 17, 2016
Reel 37754, frame 98
Pate Baird, PllcVenuenext, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jan 19, 2017
Reel 41431, frame 507
Venuenext, Inc.Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc.Security Interest
Jan 19, 2017
reel/frame not recorded
Venuenext, Inc.Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc.Security Interest
Jan 19, 2017
reel/frame not recorded
Venuenext, Inc.Venture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc.Security Interest
Mar 23, 2018
Reel 45688, frame 575
Venuenext, Inc.Venture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc.Security Interest
Mar 5, 2021
Reel 55514, frame 615
Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc.Venuenext, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 5, 2021
Reel 55514, frame 619
Venture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc.Venuenext, Inc.Release of Security Interest
May 24, 2021
Reel 56338, frame 420
Venuenext, Inc.Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands BranchFirst Lien Security Agreement Supplement
Sep 4, 2024
Reel 68829, frame 694
Venuenext, Inc.Venuenext, LLCChange of Name
Sep 10, 2024
Reel 68920, frame 380
UBS AG Cayman Islands Branch (as Successor Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent to Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch)Goldman Sachs Bank USAAssignment of Security Interest in IP Collateral (056338/0420)

Sources

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

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