Lapsed May 19, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 17, 2027
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Apr 10, 2013 as application 13/859,918 · Granted May 19, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 19, 2023
2007
2027
Clock starts
Oct 17, 2007
Oct 17, 2007
No longer in force
May 19, 2023
May 19, 2023
Granted
May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015
Term would have run to
Oct 17, 2027
Oct 17, 2027
base term
after the term ends
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,447,018, to Oct 17, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
49
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Oct 17, 2027: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 17, 2007, when applications 11/974,944 and 11/974,983, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Apr 10, 2013) | Oct 17, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,447,018) | resolves to Oct 17, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 19, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 19, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,625,762 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 8,488,754 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 8,879,702 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 8,447,018 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 8,811,575 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 8,548,140 | In force Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| US 9,036,797 | this patent May 2023 | May 2023 |
| US 10,958,781 | In force Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
8 of 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 2015 Reel 34802, frame 62 | Martino, Monica Rose; Smith, M. Gregory; Nguyen, Kevin V. | I D You, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 27, 2019 Reel 50579, frame 666 | I D You, LLC | Accudata, Inc. Dba Accudata Technologies, Inc. Aka Accudata Technologies | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 27, 2019 Reel 50579, frame 777 | Accudata, Inc. Dba Accudata Technologies, Inc. Aka Accudata Technologies | First Orion Corp., Aka First Orion Corp. D/B/A Privacystar | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,447,018, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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