Term ends Aug 17, 2033 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Avi-SPL LLC

Filed Feb 15, 2012 as application 13/397,619 · Granted Apr 28, 2015

Base term plus 549 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Aug 17, 2033

2012 2033

Clock starts
Feb 15, 2012

Term ends
Aug 17, 2033

Granted
Apr 28, 2015

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

549

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 549 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 Feb 15, 2012, when this application, 13/397,619, was filed	Feb 15, 2032	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+549 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 17, 2033	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	Aug 17, 2033	High confidence

This family

US 9,019,372	this patent Aug 2033	Aug 2033
US 9,497,373	In force Feb 2032	Feb 2032
US 9,661,209	In force Feb 2032	Feb 2032

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 12, 2012 Reel 28034, frame 660	Willis, Leigh; Honig, Lawrence; Honig, Charles Mark	Videolink, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 22, 2013 Reel 30065, frame 837	Videolink, Inc.	Videolink LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 27, 2016 Reel 41192, frame 368	Videolink LLC	FMP Agency Services, LLC, as Agent	Security Agreement
Jan 26, 2017 Reel 41497, frame 870	Videolink LLC	Webster Business Credit Corporation	Security Agreement
May 8, 2018 Reel 45742, frame 175	FMP Agency Services, LLC	Signal Perfection Ltd.; Audio Visual Innovations, Inc.; Videolink LLC	Release of Security Interest
May 8, 2018 reel/frame not recorded	FMP Agency Services, LLC	Signal Perfection Ltd.	Release of Security Interest
May 8, 2018 reel/frame not recorded	FMP Agency Services, LLC	Audio Visual Innovations, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
May 8, 2018 reel/frame not recorded	FMP Agency Services, LLC	Videolink LLC	Release of Security Interest
Mar 10, 2020 Reel 52137, frame 199	Signal Perfection, Ltd.; Videolink LLC	Bank Of America, N.a.	Patent Security Agreement
Mar 11, 2020 Reel 52150, frame 235	Webster Business Credit Corporation	Videolink LLC	Release of Security Interest in Patents Recorded at Reel/Frame No.: 041497/0870
Jun 6, 2024 Reel 68056, frame 19	Videolink LLC; Avi-SPL LLC	Apollo Administrative Agency LLC	Patent Security Agreement
Jun 10, 2024 Reel 67677, frame 384	Bank Of America, N.a.	Signal Perfection Ltd.; Videolink LLC	Release of Security Interest
Jun 10, 2024 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N.a.	Signal Perfection Ltd.	Release of Security Interest
Jun 10, 2024 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N.a.	Videolink LLC	Release of Security Interest
Aug 13, 2025 Reel 72422, frame 770	Avi-SPL LLC	Silver Point Finance, LLC, as Collateral Agent	Security Agreement
Aug 20, 2025 Reel 72502, frame 1	Apollo Administrative Agency LLC	Avi-SPL LLC; Videolink LLC	Patent Release of Security Interest at R/F 68056-0019
Aug 20, 2025 reel/frame not recorded	Apollo Administrative Agency LLC	Avi-SPL LLC	Patent Release of Security Interest at R/F 68056-0019
Aug 20, 2025 reel/frame not recorded	Apollo Administrative Agency LLC	Videolink LLC	Patent Release of Security Interest at R/F 68056-0019
Nov 24, 2025 Reel 74024, frame 324	Videolink LLC; Avi-SPL LLC	Avi-SPL LLC	Merger and Change of Name

Sources

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What's changing

Aug 2033

Term ends Aug 17, 2033. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 549 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 above the median of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

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