Term ends Jun 2, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 13, 2037
Held by Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jun 16, 2017 as application 15/625,271 · Granted Dec 10, 2019
Base term plus 109 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Feb 13, 2017
Feb 13, 2017
Term ends
Jun 2, 2037
Jun 2, 2037
Granted
Dec 10, 2019
Dec 10, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
109
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.
34
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 109 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 Feb 13, 2017, when applications 15/431,275 and 15/431,607, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Jun 16, 2017) | Feb 13, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +109 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 2, 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 | Jun 2, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,819,713 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 10,033,780 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 10,979,636 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 10,397,528 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| Application 15/614,609 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,506,160 | this patent Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
| US 9,965,934 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 10,489,453 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
8 of 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 2017 Reel 44480, frame 47 | Lemberger, Elliott | Bot Home Automation, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 10, 2018 Reel 48694, frame 320 | Bot Home Automation, Inc. | Ring Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 10, 2018 Reel 47764, frame 74 | Ring Inc. | Ring, LLC | Change of Name |
| Dec 10, 2018 Reel 48695, frame 493 | Ring LLC | A9 Com, Inc. | Bill of Sale |
| Oct 7, 2024 Reel 69115, frame 39 | A9.com, Inc. | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jun 2037
Term ends Jun 2, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 109 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
28
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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