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Methods for Authenticating Photographic Image Data

US 11,632,363 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 11, 2024 (Wti Fund X, Inc.).

Term ends Dec 10, 2037 · Medium confidence

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

Held by Truepic Inc.
Filed Oct 25, 2021 as application 17/509,236 · Granted Apr 18, 2023
Base term plus 61 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
Oct 10, 2017
Term ends
Dec 10, 2037
Granted
Apr 18, 2023
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
61
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.
5
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 61 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 10, 2017, when application 15/728,869, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 25, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Oct 10, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+61 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 10, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 10, 2037Medium confidence

This family

US 10,375,050In force
Oct 2037
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Application PCT/US2018/053059PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,159,504In force
Oct 2037
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US 11,632,363this patent
Dec 2037
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US 11,968,199In force
no later than Oct 2037
no later than Oct 2037
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
Oct 25, 2021
Reel 57894, frame 739
Lyons, Jason; Stack, Craig; Lyons, Francis; McGregor, JeffreyTruepic Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 11, 2024
Reel 67970, frame 287
Truepic Inc.Wti Fund X, Inc.; Wti Fund XI, Inc.Security Interest
Jul 11, 2024
reel/frame not recorded
Truepic Inc.Wti Fund X, Inc.Security Interest
Jul 11, 2024
reel/frame not recorded
Truepic Inc.Wti Fund XI, Inc.Security Interest

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

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