Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 23, 2026 (Ares Capital Corporation).
Term ends Feb 12, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 12, 2034
Held by TRX Systems, Inc.
Filed Jun 28, 2018 as application 16/022,526 · Granted Dec 14, 2021
Base term plus 254 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Feb 12, 2014
Feb 12, 2014
Term ends
Feb 12, 2034
Feb 12, 2034
Granted
Dec 14, 2021
Dec 14, 2021
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
254
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 9,733,091.
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.
10
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 254 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 Feb 12, 2014, when application 14/178,605, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 28, 2018) | Feb 12, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +254 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 24, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,733,091) | capped to Feb 12, 2034 | 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 | Feb 12, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,733,091 | In force Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2014/024881 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,395,190 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 9,983,012 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 10,352,707 | In force Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| US 10,852,145 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 11,199,412 | this patent Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| US 11,156,464 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2018 Reel 46828, frame 389 | Kordari, Kamiar; Funk, Benjamin; Teolis, Carole; Napora, Jared; Karvounis, John; Hakim, Dan; Giles, Christopher; Politi, Carol | TRX Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 23, 2026 Reel 75170, frame 859 | Freeflight Acquisition Corporation; Acr Electronics, Inc.; TRX Systems, Inc. | Ares Capital Corporation, As Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2034
Term ends Feb 12, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 254 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 9,733,091.
Citations
15
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.
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