Term ends Mar 13, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 2, 2035
Filed May 19, 2016 as application 15/159,584 · Granted Apr 16, 2019
Base term plus 285 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2036
Clock starts
Jun 2, 2015
Jun 2, 2015
Term ends
Mar 13, 2036
Mar 13, 2036
Granted
Apr 16, 2019
Apr 16, 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
285
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.
3
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 285 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jun 2, 2015, when application 14/728,713, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 19, 2016) | Jun 2, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +285 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 13, 2036 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 13, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,912,697 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 10,264,458 | this patent Mar 2036 | Mar 2036 |
| US 10,924,932 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
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 20, 2016 Reel 38662, frame 23 | Dorfman, Scott; Chhatre, Umesh S. | AOL Advertising Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 23, 2016 Reel 38851, frame 668 | Dorfman, Scott; Chhatre, Umesh S. | AOL Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 038662 Frame: 0023. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Dec 15, 2017 Reel 44884, frame 482 | AOL Inc. | Oath Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 26, 2020 Reel 54258, frame 635 | Oath Inc. | Verizon Media Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 19, 2021 Reel 57453, frame 431 | Verizon Media Inc. | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2036
Term ends Mar 13, 2036.
Note
The 285 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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