Also listed on Triplay, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends May 2, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 30, 2024
Held by Alarm.com Incorporated
Filed Jul 30, 2004 as application 10/909,200 · Granted Feb 16, 2016
Base term plus 1372 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2028
Clock starts
Jul 30, 2004
Jul 30, 2004
Term ends
May 2, 2028
May 2, 2028
Granted
Feb 16, 2016
Feb 16, 2016
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
1,372
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
74
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 1372 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Jul 30, 2004, when this application, 10/909,200, was filed | Jul 30, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1372 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 2, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 2, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,366,544 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Application 10/816,082 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/816,364 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,161,097 | Term ended no later than Jul 2026 | no later than Jul 2026 |
| US 8,200,744 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,335,814 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 7,317,898 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| Application 10/844,613 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2004 Reel 15704, frame 752 | Jung, Edward K.; Tegreene, Clarence T. | Searete LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 2, 2015 Reel 35120, frame 862 | Triplay, Inc. | Fortress Credit Co. LLC | Security Interest |
| May 14, 2015 Reel 35643, frame 702 | Invention Science Fund I, LLC; Searete LLC | Triplay, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 18, 2020 Reel 52156, frame 955 | Fortress Credit Co. LLC | Triplay, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 5, 2020 Reel 53411, frame 805 | Triplay, Inc. | JTT Investment Partners, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 5, 2023 Reel 62279, frame 900 | JTT Investment Partners, LLC | Alarm.com Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2028
Term ends May 2, 2028. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1372 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
19
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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