Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 15, 2026 (Fidus Investment Corporation).
Term ends Nov 20, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 17, 2037
Held by Autoalert, LLC
Filed Oct 17, 2017 as application 15/786,540 · Granted Jan 5, 2021
Base term plus 399 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2038
Clock starts
Oct 17, 2017
Oct 17, 2017
Term ends
Nov 20, 2038
Nov 20, 2038
Granted
Jan 5, 2021
Jan 5, 2021
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
399
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 399 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 Oct 17, 2017, when this application, 15/786,540, was filed | Oct 17, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +399 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 20, 2038 | 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 | Nov 20, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,885,562 | this patent Nov 2038 | Nov 2038 |
| US 10,430,848 | In force Oct 2037 | Oct 2037 |
| US 11,790,420 | In force Feb 2038 | Feb 2038 |
| Application 18/486,093 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 10, 2019 Reel 48851, frame 189 | Cotton, Jeffrey Stuart; Warner, Boyd Hodgson; Walls, Tom Andrew; Zhuravchak, Levko; Milius, Dan Christian; Faulkner, Jeff Keith; Dullea, Mike Phillip | Autoalert, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 18, 2020 Reel 52692, frame 555 | Autoalert, LLC | Obsidian Agency Services, Inc., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Apr 3, 2023 Reel 63211, frame 479 | Autoalert, LLC | Acquiom Agency Services LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Apr 4, 2023 Reel 63217, frame 887 | Autoalert, LLC | Acquiom Agency Services LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Apr 11, 2023 Reel 63287, frame 651 | Obsidian Agency Services, Inc., as Collateral Agent | Autoalert, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 19, 2024 Reel 69408, frame 766 | Autoalert, LLC | Western Alliance Bank | Security Agreement |
| Apr 9, 2026 Reel 74325, frame 839 | Acquiom Agency Services LLC | Autoalert, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 9, 2026 Reel 75458, frame 102 | Western Alliance Bank | Autoalert, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 15, 2026 Reel 74369, frame 275 | Purecars Technologies, LLC; Trupayments LLC; Autoalert, LLC | Fidus Investment Corporation | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2038
Term ends Nov 20, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 399 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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