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Commercial Television-Interfacing Dongle and System and Method for Use of Same

US 9,955,211 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 2, 2021 (Prospect Capital Corporation).

Lapsed Apr 24, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Enseo, LLC
Filed Apr 26, 2016 as application 15/138,532 · Granted Apr 24, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 65 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Apr 24, 2026
2012 2032
Clock starts
Jun 20, 2012
No longer in force
Apr 24, 2026
Granted
Apr 24, 2018
Term would have run to
Jun 20, 2032
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
65
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,326,020, US 9,380,336, US 9,525,909, US 9,736,532.
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.
37
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 Jun 20, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 65 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 20, 2012, when application 13/528,663, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 26, 2016)Jun 20, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+65 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 24, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,326,020, US 9,380,336, US 9,525,909, US 9,736,532)capped to Jun 20, 2032High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Apr 24, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 24, 2026High confidence

This family

US 8,650,600Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2026
Feb 2026
US 8,875,195Grace period ended
Jun 2032
Jun 2032
US 9,154,825In force
Jun 2032
Jun 2032
US 9,351,029In force
Jun 2032
Jun 2032
US 9,326,020In force
Jun 2032
Jun 2032
US 9,380,336In force
Jun 2032
Jun 2032
US 9,955,211this patent
Apr 2026
Apr 2026
Application 15/162,823Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 37 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
Jun 24, 2016
Reel 39002, frame 211
Ogle, Vanessa; Fang, BillEnseo, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 17, 2017
Reel 43210, frame 881
Enseo, Inc.Silicon Valley BankSecurity Interest
Jan 27, 2021
Reel 55139, frame 530
Enseo, Inc.Enseo, LLCChange of Name
Jun 2, 2021
Reel 56462, frame 174
Enseo, LLC; Catapult Technologies, LLCProspect Capital CorporationSecurity Interest
Jun 4, 2021
Reel 56445, frame 915
Silicon Valley BankEnseo, LLCRelease of Security Interest

Sources

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

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