Lapsed Dec 26, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 28, 2034
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed May 4, 2016 as application 15/146,774 · Granted Dec 26, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Dec 26, 2025
2014
2034
Clock starts
Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014
No longer in force
Dec 26, 2025
Dec 26, 2025
Granted
Dec 26, 2017
Dec 26, 2017
Term would have run to
Jul 28, 2034
Jul 28, 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,363,569, to Jul 28, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
22
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 Jul 28, 2034: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Jul 28, 2014, when application 14/444,938, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 4, 2016) | Jul 28, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,363,569) | resolves to Jul 28, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 26, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 26, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,451,162 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 9,911,454 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 10,368,011 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 10,186,301 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 10,701,426 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 9,363,569 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 9,851,793 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,425,570 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
8 of 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2019 Reel 50602, frame 853 | Jaunt, Inc. | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 18, 2019 Reel 50760, frame 783 | Van Hoff, Arthur; Annau, Thomas M.; Christensen, Jens | Jaunt Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,363,569, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
11
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
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