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US 10,185,779 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 29, 2022 (Royal Bank of Canada).

Term ends Sep 12, 2032 · High confidence

Filed Jul 30, 2008 as application 12/182,715 · Granted Jan 22, 2019
Base term plus 1505 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2032
Clock starts
Jul 30, 2008
Term ends
Sep 12, 2032
Granted
Jan 22, 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
1,505
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.
17
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 1505 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 Jul 30, 2008, when this application, 12/182,715, was filedJul 30, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1505 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 12, 2032High 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 orderSep 12, 2032High confidence

This family

US 7,756,903In force
Feb 2028
Feb 2028
US 7,630,972In force
Oct 2027
Oct 2027
Application PCT/US2007/086990PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,954,500In force
Nov 2029
Nov 2029
Application 12/038,716Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 10,185,779this patent
Sep 2032
Sep 2032
US 8,032,510In force
Oct 2029
Oct 2029
Application PCT/US2008/087040PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
8 of 17 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
Jul 31, 2008
Reel 21325, frame 323
Boerries, Marco; Saft, Keith; Grinsted, George; Parry, Lee; Bernoulli, Carlo P.; Davis, Marc; O'sullivan, JosephYahoo! Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 23, 2017
Reel 42963, frame 211
Yahoo! Inc.Yahoo Holdings, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 2, 2018
Reel 45240, frame 310
Yahoo Holdings, Inc.Oath Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 26, 2020
Reel 54258, frame 635
Oath Inc.Verizon Media Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 16, 2021
Reel 58982, frame 282
Yahoo Ad Tech LLC (Formerly Verizon Media Inc.)Yahoo Assets LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 29, 2022
Reel 61571, frame 773
Yahoo Assets LLCRoyal Bank of Canada, as Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement (First Lien)

Sources

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

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