Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 8, 2023 (VFP, LLC).
Term ends Sep 10, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 27, 2036
Held by Linear Labs, Inc.
Filed Jan 27, 2016 as application 15/008,431 · Granted Nov 12, 2019
Base term plus 592 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Jan 27, 2016
Jan 27, 2016
Term ends
Sep 10, 2037
Sep 10, 2037
Granted
Nov 12, 2019
Nov 12, 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
592
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.
22
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 592 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 Jan 27, 2016, when this application, 15/008,431, was filed | Jan 27, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +592 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 10, 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 | Sep 10, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,419,483 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| Application 14/608,232 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,263,480 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| US 10,284,029 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 10,476,362 | this patent Sep 2037 | Sep 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2016/026776 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2016/039673 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 15/413,228 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 2016 Reel 37602, frame 439 | Hunstable, Fred E. | Linear Labs, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 28, 2018 Reel 47159, frame 383 | Hunstable, Fred E. | Linear Labs, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Entity Previously Recorded at Reel: 037602 Frame: 0439. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assgnment. |
| Feb 12, 2020 Reel 51906, frame 261 | Linear Labs, LLC | Linear Labs, Inc. | Conversion |
| Mar 8, 2023 Reel 62992, frame 725 | Linear Labs, Inc. | VFP, LLC | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2037
Term ends Sep 10, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 592 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
31
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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