Lapsed Oct 16, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 12, 2034
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.
Held by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Filed Oct 31, 2017 as application 15/799,621 · Granted Oct 16, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 16, 2026
2014
2034
Clock starts
Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014
No longer in force
Oct 16, 2026
Oct 16, 2026
Granted
Oct 16, 2018
Oct 16, 2018
Term would have run to
Nov 12, 2034
Nov 12, 2034
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
23
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 Nov 12, 2034: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Low. 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 Nov 12, 2014, when application 14/539,773, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 31, 2017) | Nov 12, 2034 | 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 | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case" | lapsed Oct 16, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 16, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 11,426,123 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Application 14/465,194 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 14/505,836 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,042,422 | In force Nov 2036 | Nov 2036 |
| US 10,188,309 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 10,101,809 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,251,577 | In force Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
| US 11,644,799 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2019 Reel 49310, frame 300 | Morun, Cezar; Lake, Stephen | Thalmic Labs Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 30, 2019 Reel 49548, frame 200 | Thalmic Labs Inc. | North Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jun 4, 2019 Reel 49368, frame 634 | North Inc. | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 20, 2020 Reel 51649, frame 1 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 10, 2020 Reel 51867, frame 136 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Data Previously Recorded at Reel: 051649 Frame: 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| May 26, 2022 Reel 60199, frame 876 | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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Citations
99
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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