Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 3, 2023 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ends Sep 18, 2035 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 8, 2035
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Cummins-Allison Corp.
Filed Mar 16, 2017 as application 15/461,046 · Granted Jun 16, 2020
Base term plus 72 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Jul 8, 2015
Jul 8, 2015
Term ends
Sep 18, 2035
Sep 18, 2035
Granted
Jun 16, 2020
Jun 16, 2020
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
72
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.
9
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 72 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jul 8, 2015, when application 14/794,262, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 16, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jul 8, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +72 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 18, 2035 | 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 18, 2035 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,501,885 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 9,508,208 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| Application 14/936,846 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,916,713 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 9,870,668 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 10,685,523 | this patent Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 10,068,406 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 11,625,968 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2017 Reel 42905, frame 218 | Jagielinski, Tomasz M | Cummins-Allison Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 3, 2023 Reel 63237, frame 538 | Crane Holdings, Co.; Crane & Co., Inc.; Crane Payment Innovations, Inc.; Crane Security Technologies, Inc.; Cummins-Allison Corp. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2035
Term ends Sep 18, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 72 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.