Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 1, 2025 (Western Alliance Bank).
Term ends Oct 13, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 18, 2036
Held by Audioeye, Inc.
Filed Mar 18, 2016 as application 15/074,818 · Granted Oct 15, 2019
Base term plus 574 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Mar 18, 2016
Mar 18, 2016
Term ends
Oct 13, 2037
Oct 13, 2037
Granted
Oct 15, 2019
Oct 15, 2019
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
574
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
27
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 574 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 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 Mar 18, 2016, when this application, 15/074,818, was filed | Mar 18, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +574 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 13, 2037 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 13, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,444,934 | this patent Oct 2037 | Oct 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2017/022542 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,423,709 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 10,928,978 | In force Aug 2036 | Aug 2036 |
| US 10,762,280 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| Application PCT/US2019/046361 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,896,286 | In force Mar 2036 | Mar 2036 |
| US 10,809,877 | In force Mar 2036 | Mar 2036 |
8 of 27 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 28, 2016 Reel 38112, frame 870 | Bradley, Sean D.; Baker, Mark D.; Jones, Jeffrey O.; Hefner, Kenny P.; Finkelstein, Adam; Gilormo, Douglas J.; Bodnar, Taylor R.; Pinckney, David C.; Blevins, Charlie E.; Jones, Trevor C.; Laymon, Helena | Audioeye, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 30, 2023 Reel 65729, frame 547 | Audioeye, Inc. | SG Credit Partners, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Feb 16, 2024 Reel 66694, frame 799 | Audioeye, Inc. | SG Credit Partners, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Jul 24, 2024 Reel 68349, frame 117 | Audioeye, Inc. | SG Credit Partners, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Apr 1, 2025 Reel 70694, frame 923 | Audioeye, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank | Security Interest |
| Apr 1, 2025 Reel 70697, frame 135 | SG Credit Partners, Inc. | Audioeye, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
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What's changing
Oct 2037
Term ends Oct 13, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 574 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
72
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.