Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 31, 2024 (Wilmington Trust, National Association).
Surrendered on reissue Mar 7, 2017 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 23, 2032
Why Medium: No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds.
Surrendered on reissue Mar 7, 2017 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE46,334.
Held by Sandbox Enterprises, LLC
Filed Oct 25, 2012 as application 13/660,870 · Granted Mar 11, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 38 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Surrendered Mar 7, 2017
2012
2032
Clock starts
Jul 23, 2012
Jul 23, 2012
No longer in force
Mar 7, 2017
Mar 7, 2017
Granted
Mar 11, 2014
Mar 11, 2014
Term would have run to
Aug 30, 2032
Aug 30, 2032
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
38
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
Not on record
Maintenance fees
USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse.
79
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 38 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events, so no fee is counted as paid or unpaid. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jul 23, 2012, when application 13/555,635, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 25, 2012) | Jul 23, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +38 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 30, 2032 | 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 | No fee events in USPTO's record of this patent. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse | no change | Medium confidence |
| Reissue | US RE46,334 issued Mar 7, 2017, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252) | surrendered Mar 7, 2017 | High confidence |
| Surrendered on reissue | The steps above, in order | Mar 7, 2017 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,827,118 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 8,622,251 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| US 9,718,610 | In force Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| US 10,464,741 | In force Jul 2032 | Jul 2032 |
| US 8,505,780 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 8,668,430 | this patent Mar 2017 | Mar 2017 |
| US 9,725,233 | In force Jul 2032 | Jul 2032 |
| US 8,585,341 | In force Jul 2032 | Jul 2032 |
8 of 79 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2013 Reel 31332, frame 957 | Oren, John; Oren, Joshua | Oren Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 9, 2013 Reel 31394, frame 520 | Oren Technologies, LLC | Sandbox Enterprises, LLC | License |
| Oct 11, 2016 Reel 40269, frame 285 | Sandbox Logistics, LLC; Oren Technologies, LLC | BNP Paribas | Security Interest |
| Oct 28, 2020 Reel 54443, frame 731 | Oren Technologies, LLC | Sandbox Enterprises, LLC | IP Assignment Agreement |
| Jul 31, 2024 Reel 68236, frame 81 | Sandbox Enterprises, LLC | Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Intellectual Property (First Lien) |
| Aug 1, 2024 Reel 68324, frame 556 | Bnp Paribas, As Collateral Agent | Sandbox Logistics, LLC; Oren Technologies, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 1, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Bnp Paribas, As Collateral Agent | Sandbox Logistics, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 1, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Bnp Paribas, As Collateral Agent | Oren Technologies, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
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Note
The 38 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
238
later US patents cite this one
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