Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 8, 2020 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ends Dec 24, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 11, 2035
Held by Ecoatm, LLC
Filed Dec 11, 2015 as application 14/966,346 · Granted Aug 3, 2021
Base term plus 935 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2015
2037
Clock starts
Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015
Term ends
Dec 24, 2037
Dec 24, 2037
Granted
Aug 3, 2021
Aug 3, 2021
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
935
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,417,615.
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.
13
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 935 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 11, 2015, when this application, 14/966,346, was filed | Dec 11, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +935 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 3, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,417,615) | capped to Dec 24, 2037 | 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 24, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,417,615 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 10,860,990 | In force Oct 2038 | Oct 2038 |
| Application 14/967,183 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,080,672 | this patent Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 11,436,570 | In force Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
| US 11,315,093 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| Application 17/086,357 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 12,541,745 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2016 Reel 38672, frame 259 | Bowles, Mark Vincent | Ecoatm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 8, 2017 Reel 41505, frame 967 | Ecoatm, LLC | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Jan 4, 2019 Reel 47901, frame 518 | Ecoatm, LLC | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Mar 6, 2019 Reel 48520, frame 880 | Ecoatm, Inc. | Ecoatm, LLC | Change of Name |
| Jan 7, 2020 Reel 51431, frame 522 | Silicon Valley Bank | Ecoatm, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 8, 2020 Reel 51504, frame 383 | Ecoatm, LLC | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Agreement |
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What's changing
Dec 2037
Term ends Dec 24, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 935 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,417,615.
Citations
71
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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