Term ends Mar 4, 2031 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Prove Identity, Inc.

Filed Jan 14, 2011 as application 13/006,806 · Granted Oct 1, 2013

Base term plus 122 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Mar 4, 2031

2010 2031

Clock starts
Nov 2, 2010

Term ends
Mar 4, 2031

Granted
Oct 1, 2013

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

122

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

3 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.

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 122 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Nov 2, 2010, when application 12/938,161, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 14, 2011)	Nov 2, 2030	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+122 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Mar 4, 2031	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	3 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 4, 2031	High confidence

This family

US 8,341,236	In force Feb 2031	Feb 2031
US 8,458,774	In force Nov 2031	Nov 2031
US 8,549,601	this patent Mar 2031	Mar 2031
US 8,806,592	In force Feb 2032	Feb 2032
US 8,789,153	In force Apr 2032	Apr 2032
Application PCT/US2011/022482	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
Application PCT/US2011/022486	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
Application PCT/US2011/023525	PCT application no patent term	no patent term

8 of 28 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
Apr 8, 2011 Reel 26097, frame 115	Ganesan, Ravi	Hawk and Seal Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 18, 2011 Reel 27252, frame 647	Hawk and Seal Inc.	Authentify Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 31, 2014 Reel 32565, frame 531	Authentify, Inc.	Jmi Services, LLC	Security Interest
Nov 19, 2015 Reel 37147, frame 213	Jmi Services , LLC	Authentify, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Mar 17, 2017 Reel 41610, frame 944	Authentify, Inc.	Early Warning Services, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 25, 2017 Reel 43325, frame 945	Authentify, Inc.; Authentify, LLC	Authentify, LLC	Merger and Change of Name
Aug 23, 2017 Reel 43649, frame 549	Authentify, LLC	Early Warning Services, LLC	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignor Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 041610 Frame: 0944. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment .
Apr 20, 2020 Reel 52439, frame 416	Hawk and Seal Inc.	Authentify, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name from Authentify Inc. to Authentify, Inc. Previously Recorded on Reel 027252 Frame 0647. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment of Assignors Interest.
Apr 20, 2020 Reel 52448, frame 75	Jmi Services, LLC	Authentify, Inc.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Name of the Receiving Party on the Release of Security Interest Agreement from Authentify Inc. to Authentify, Inc. Previously Recorded on Reel 037147 Frame 0213. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interest.
Jun 18, 2020 Reel 52984, frame 61	Payfone, Inc.	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Confirmatory Grant of Security Interest in Patents
Jul 8, 2020 Reel 53148, frame 191	Early Warning Services, LLC	Payfone, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 21, 2025 Reel 70294, frame 800	Payfone, Inc.	Prove Identity, Inc.	Change of Name

Sources

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What's changing

Mar 2031

Term ends Mar 4, 2031. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 122 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

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