Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 22, 2023 (Midcap Financial Trust).
Term ends Jun 24, 2035 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 17, 2034
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Study Edge, Inc.
Filed Mar 9, 2015 as application 14/641,840 · Granted Nov 13, 2018
Base term plus 464 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014
Term ends
Jun 24, 2035
Jun 24, 2035
Granted
Nov 13, 2018
Nov 13, 2018
base term
patent term adjustment
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
464
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
15
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 464 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Mar 17, 2014, when application 14/216,688, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 9, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 17, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +464 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 24, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 24, 2035 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,126,927 | this patent Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
| US 10,540,906 | In force Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 10,467,918 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 11,113,983 | In force no later than Mar 2034 | no later than Mar 2034 |
| US 10,515,561 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,572,135 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 11,061,547 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 11,056,013 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
8 of 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 2015 Reel 35129, frame 764 | Fieldman, Ethan | Study Social, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 23, 2021 Reel 58200, frame 782 | Study Edge, Inc. (F/K/A Study Social, Inc.) | Barings Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Aug 31, 2022 Reel 60957, frame 35 | Sunshine Merger Sub, Inc.; Studysocial, Inc. | Study Edge, Inc. | Merger |
| Aug 31, 2022 Reel 61361, frame 343 | Fieldman, Ethan | Studysocial, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party's Name from Study Social, Inc. to Studysocial, Inc. Previously Recorded on Reel 035129 Frame 0764. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Mar 16, 2023 Reel 63005, frame 886 | Studysocial, Inc.; Sunshine Merger Sub, Inc.; Study Edge, Inc. | Study Edge, Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
| Mar 22, 2023 Reel 63142, frame 625 | Studysocial, Inc.; Sunshine Merger Sub, Inc. | Study Edge, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the First Listed Patent from "Application Number 10540906" to --Patent Number 10540906-- Previously Recorded at Reel: 063005 Frame: 0886. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger and Change of Name. |
| Mar 22, 2023 Reel 63146, frame 839 | Study Edge, Inc. | Midcap Financial Trust | Patent Security Agreement |
| Mar 23, 2023 Reel 63073, frame 537 | Barings Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Study Edge, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
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What's changing
Jun 2035
Term ends Jun 24, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 464 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
89
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2018 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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