Term ends Aug 18, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 18, 2029
Held by Intellective AI, Inc.
Filed Sep 29, 2017 as application 15/720,971 · Granted Apr 2, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Aug 18, 2009
Aug 18, 2009
Term ends
Aug 18, 2029
Aug 18, 2029
Granted
Apr 2, 2019
Apr 2, 2019
base term
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 9,805,271, to Aug 18, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
4
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. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 18, 2009, when application 12/543,223, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 29, 2017) | Aug 18, 2029 | 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 9,805,271) | resolves to Aug 18, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 18, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,805,271 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2010/045206 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,248,869 | this patent Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 10,796,164 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2017 Reel 44431, frame 290 | Pepperwood Fund II, LP | Omni AI, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 19, 2017 Reel 44431, frame 328 | Giant Gray, Inc. | Pepperwood Fund II, LP | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 19, 2017 Reel 44431, frame 356 | Cobb, Wesley Kenneth; Blythe, Bobby Ernest; Gottumukkal, Rajkiran Kumar; Saitwal, Kishor Adinath; Xu, Gang; Yang, Tao | Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 19, 2017 Reel 44906, frame 776 | Behavioral Recognition Systems | Giant Gray, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 24, 2020 Reel 52216, frame 585 | Omni AI, Inc. | Intellective AI, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2029
Term ends Aug 18, 2029.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,805,271, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2019 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.