Collateral for a security interest recorded May 17, 2024 (First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company).
Term ends Oct 12, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 8, 2024
Held by Truecontext Inc.
Filed Oct 8, 2004 as application 10/961,784 · Granted Aug 5, 2014
Base term plus 1465 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2028
Clock starts
Oct 8, 2004
Oct 8, 2004
Term ends
Oct 12, 2028
Oct 12, 2028
Granted
Aug 5, 2014
Aug 5, 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
1,465
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.
3
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 1465 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 Oct 8, 2004, when this application, 10/961,784, was filed | Oct 8, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1465 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 12, 2028 | 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 | Oct 12, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,799,242 | this patent Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 9,471,611 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Application 15/265,481 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 21, 2006 Reel 17805, frame 602 | Leonard, Glenda Ann; Eisener, Thane; Craddock, Julian; Rachow, Waldo; Haskins, Paul | Truecontext Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 28, 2006 Reel 18685, frame 491 | Truecontext Corporation | Comerica Bank | Security Agreement |
| Nov 17, 2016 Reel 40358, frame 316 | Truecontext Corporation | Prontoforms Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 30, 2020 Reel 54229, frame 750 | Comerica Bank | Prontoforms Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 2, 2020 Reel 54242, frame 845 | Prontoforms Inc. | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | Security Interest |
| Nov 23, 2023 Reel 65675, frame 187 | Prontoforms Inc. | Truecontext Inc. | Change of Name |
| May 17, 2024 Reel 67442, frame 832 | TC Pledge Intermediateco Inc.; TC Pledgeco Inc.; 1000827877 Ontario Inc.; Truecontext Corporation; Truecontext Inc.; Truecontext, Inc. | First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company | Security Interest |
| May 17, 2024 Reel 67450, frame 151 | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | Truecontext Inc. (Formerly Known as Prontoforms Inc.) | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2028
Term ends Oct 12, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1465 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
169
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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