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Systems and Methods to Facilitate Interactions in an Interactive Space

US 10,168,768 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Also listed on Meta Company, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 11, 2019 (Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc.).

Term ends May 27, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Mar 1, 2017 as application 15/446,667 · Granted Jan 1, 2019
Base term plus 87 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
Mar 1, 2017
Term ends
May 27, 2037
Granted
Jan 1, 2019
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
87
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
2
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 87 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 1, 2017, when this application, 15/446,667, was filedMar 1, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+87 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 27, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 27, 2037High confidence

This family

US 10,168,768this patent
May 2037
May 2037
Application 16/235,264Abandoned
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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 22, 2017
Reel 42791, frame 425
Kinstner, Zachary R.Meta CompanyAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 3, 2019
Reel 49038, frame 277
Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc.Meta View, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 11, 2019
Reel 50341, frame 738
Meta CompanyVenture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc.Security Interest
Sep 11, 2019
reel/frame not recorded
Meta CompanyVenture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc.Security Interest
Sep 11, 2019
reel/frame not recorded
Meta CompanyVenture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc.Security Interest

Sources

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

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