Collateral for a security interest recorded Nov 6, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ends Apr 1, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 1, 2036
Held by Temperpack Technologies, Inc.
Filed Sep 1, 2017 as application 15/694,445 · Granted May 12, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Apr 1, 2016
Apr 1, 2016
Term ends
Apr 1, 2036
Apr 1, 2036
Granted
May 12, 2020
May 12, 2020
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,550,618, US 9,751,683, US 9,957,098, to Apr 1, 2036. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
12
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 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 Apr 1, 2016, when application 15/089,344, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 1, 2017) | Apr 1, 2036 | 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 9,550,618, US 9,751,683, US 9,957,098) | resolves to Apr 1, 2036, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Apr 1, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 15/089,344 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,550,618 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 9,751,683 | In force Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| US 9,957,098 | In force Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| Application PCT/US2017/015893 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,647,497 | this patent Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| US 10,625,923 | In force Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| US 11,453,540 | In force Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2018 Reel 45825, frame 184 | Jobe, Darrell | Vericool, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 18, 2021 Reel 57816, frame 343 | Vericool, Inc. | Fish & Richardson P.C. | Lien |
| Dec 28, 2021 Reel 58493, frame 967 | Fish & Richardson PC | Vericool, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 23, 2022 Reel 59373, frame 594 | Vericool, Inc. | Vcool (Assignment for Benefit of Creditors) LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 23, 2022 Reel 59483, frame 159 | Vcool (Assignment for Benefit of Creditors) LLC | Vericool World, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 13, 2023 Reel 62389, frame 186 | Vericool World, LLC | Storopack, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Apr 18, 2023 Reel 63361, frame 948 | Vericool World, LLC | Storopack, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Mar 18, 2024 Reel 66811, frame 187 | Storopack, Inc. | Vericool World LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 26, 2024 Reel 66898, frame 660 | Storopack, Inc. | Vericool World LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 28, 2025 Reel 72676, frame 364 | Vericool World LLC | Temperpack Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 6, 2025 Reel 72816, frame 641 | Temperpack Technologies Inc. | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Apr 2036
Term ends Apr 1, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,550,618, US 9,751,683, US 9,957,098, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
37
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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