Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 23, 2026 (Ares Capital Corporation).
Term ends Sep 26, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 31, 2027
Held by TRX Systems, Inc.
Filed May 31, 2007 as application 11/756,412 · Granted Apr 1, 2014
Base term plus 1214 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2030
Clock starts
May 31, 2007
May 31, 2007
Term ends
Sep 26, 2030
Sep 26, 2030
Granted
Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014
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
1,214
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.
2
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 1214 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 May 31, 2007, when this application, 11/756,412, was filed | May 31, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1214 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 26, 2030 | 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 | Sep 26, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,688,375 | this patent Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
| US 8,706,414 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
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 26, 2013 Reel 31081, frame 8 | Funk, Benjamin E.; Bandyopadhyay, Amrit; Kohn, Eric A.; Goldsman, Neil; Teolis, Carole A.; Blankenship, Gilmer L. | TRX Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 14, 2022 Reel 60380, frame 497 | Funk, Benjamin E.; Bandyopadhyay, Amrit; Kohn, Eric A.; Goldsman, Neil; Teolis, Carole A.; Blankenship, Gilmer L. | TRX Systems, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Document Recorded for Inventor Neil Goldsman, as Well as the Date the Document Was Executed Previously Recorded at Reel: 031081 Frame: 0008. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| 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
Sep 2030
Term ends Sep 26, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1214 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
333
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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