Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 1, 2025 (Bain Capital Credit, LP).
Term ended Jun 15, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 15, 2025
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 9,611,629), so the cap could be lower.
Held by Am Conservation Group
Filed Apr 3, 2017 as application 15/478,065 · Granted Mar 27, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jun 15, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jun 15, 2005
Jun 15, 2005
Term ended
Jun 15, 2025
Jun 15, 2025
Granted
Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018
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 9,611,629, to Jun 15, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
8
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 is 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: Medium. 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 Jun 15, 2005, when application 11/154,404, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 3, 2017) | Jun 15, 2025 | 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 9,611,629) | resolves to Jun 15, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 15, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,681,804 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 7,878,417 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 8,464,962 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 8,434,693 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 9,309,655 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 9,611,629 | Term ended no later than Jun 2025 | no later than Jun 2025 |
| US 9,927,042 | this patent Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 10,808,857 | Term ended no later than Jun 2025 | no later than Jun 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2023 Reel 64468, frame 341 | Brown, Michael; Lockhart, John; Doss, Jeffrey S. | Evolve Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 22, 2023 Reel 64995, frame 919 | Evolve Technologies, LLC | Am Conservation Group | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 1, 2025 Reel 71905, frame 305 | Am Conservation Group, Inc.; Planetecosystems, LLC | Bain Capital Credit, LP | Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,611,629, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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