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US 10,671,999 Term ended
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Term ended Nov 22, 2025 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Mar 6, 2019 as application 16/294,365 · Granted Jun 2, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Nov 22, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Nov 22, 2005
Term ended
Nov 22, 2025
Granted
Jun 2, 2020
base term after the term ends 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
8
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. Confidence: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 22, 2005, when application 11/285,053, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 6, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Nov 22, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 1 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 22, 2025Medium confidence

This family

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US 10,248,951In force
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US 8,464,937Term ended
Nov 2025
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US 10,671,999this patent
Nov 2025
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US 10,963,874Term ended
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US 11,507,951Term ended
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US 11,861,611Term ended
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 10, 2019
Reel 49705, frame 682
Brodson, Mark; James, Vicki L.; Erdmann, Jeffrey JayMetavante CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 13, 2021
Reel 56284, frame 75
Metavante CorporationFis Payments LLCConversion
Oct 1, 2021
Reel 57665, frame 528
Fis Payments LLCFidelity Information Services, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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