Term ends Dec 16, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 9, 2035
Held by Thales DIS CPL USA, Inc.
Filed Dec 9, 2015 as application 14/964,048 · Granted Mar 3, 2020
Base term plus 373 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2036
Clock starts
Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015
Term ends
Dec 16, 2036
Dec 16, 2036
Granted
Mar 3, 2020
Mar 3, 2020
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
373
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.
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 runs 373 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 Dec 9, 2015, when this application, 14/964,048, was filed | Dec 9, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +373 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 16, 2036 | 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 | Dec 16, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,579,833 | this patent Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| US 10,594,668 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,250,171 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 11,115,396 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
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 9, 2015 Reel 37251, frame 580 | Cook, Timothy E.; Wardrop, Gerald Thomas, JR. | Thales e-Security, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 13, 2017 Reel 44109, frame 838 | Thales e-Security, Inc.; Vormetric, Inc. | Thales e-Security, Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
| Jul 2, 2019 Reel 49670, frame 266 | Thales e-Security, Inc. | Thales Esecurity, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Aug 26, 2022 Reel 60907, frame 877 | Thales Esecurity, Inc.; Safenet, Inc.; Thales DIS CPL USA, Inc. | Thales DIS CPL USA, Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2036
Term ends Dec 16, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 373 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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