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Account Sharing Prevention and Detection in Online Education

US 9,912,676 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 22, 2023 (Midcap Financial Trust).

Term ends Jun 30, 2037 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Oct 4, 2017 as application 15/724,442 · Granted Mar 6, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2017
Term ends
Jun 30, 2037
Granted
Mar 6, 2018
base term 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.
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.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 30, 2017, when application 15/639,740, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 4, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jun 30, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 30, 2037Medium confidence

This family

US 9,912,676this patent
Jun 2037
Jun 2037
US 10,250,614Lapsed on the fee record
Apr 2023
Apr 2023
2 of 3 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jan 18, 2018
Reel 44655, frame 951
Fieldman, EthanStudy Social, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 23, 2021
Reel 58200, frame 782
Study Edge, Inc. (F/K/A Study Social, Inc.)Barings Finance LLC, as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Mar 16, 2023
Reel 63005, frame 886
Studysocial, Inc.; Sunshine Merger Sub, Inc.; Study Edge, Inc.Study Edge, Inc.Merger and Change of Name
Mar 22, 2023
Reel 63142, frame 625
Studysocial, Inc.; Sunshine Merger Sub, Inc.Study Edge, Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the First Listed Patent from "Application Number 10540906" to --Patent Number 10540906-- Previously Recorded at Reel: 063005 Frame: 0886. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger and Change of Name.
Mar 22, 2023
Reel 63146, frame 839
Study Edge, Inc.Midcap Financial TrustPatent Security Agreement
Mar 23, 2023
Reel 63073, frame 537
Barings Finance LLC, as Collateral AgentStudy Edge, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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