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Elsevier Inc.

22 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026
3 more in force are now held by other companies
Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.
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Fee deadlines

Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.
  • 1 fee due Dec 27, 2026
    The maintenance fee for Systems and methods to extract the context of scientific measurements using targeted question answering (US 11,687,734) comes due Dec 27, 2026. Unpaid by Jun 28, 2027, it lapses early.
  • 1 fee due Jan 18, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Systems, methods and computer program products for automatically extracting information from a flowchart image (US 11,704,922) comes due Jan 18, 2027. Unpaid by Jul 19, 2027, it lapses early.

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Recent changes

Nothing was recorded against this company's patents in the last 90 days.

Patents held now

Soonest term end first. Each date below is computed on that patent's own page, which shows the rule, the adjustments and the fee history it was derived from.
PatentTitleStatus Expires Confidence
US 9,047,291Systems and methods for saving and applying user-specified file naming conventions
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US 8,195,715Systems and methods for saving and applying user-specified file naming conventions
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US 9,460,391Methods and systems for knowledge discovery
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US 9,971,974Methods and systems for knowledge discovery
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US 9,779,083Functioning of a computing device by a natural language processing method comprising analysis of sentences by clause types
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US 8,166,033System and method for matching and assembling records
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US 7,900,241Methods and apparatus for post-search automated full-article retrieval
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US 8,407,203Computer system for enhanced taxonomy management
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US 8,977,859Systems and methods for data compression and decompression
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US 10,740,560Systems and methods for extracting funder information from text
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Also on record, not counted in the 22: 3 patents in force now held by others · 1 lapsed for an unpaid fee · 5 ended at full term. List them

Sources and methods

Compiled from the USPTO record, grants, published applications and recorded assignments, not yet reviewed by hand. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

Published applications

US patent applications published under this name that have not become patents. An application is published about eighteen months after its earliest filing; one that has not been published is in no public record.

1 pending · 5 no status recorded

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