Also listed on Microsoft Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Lapsed Jun 4, 2023 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 20, 2031
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 9,247,015), so the cap could be lower.
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Jan 25, 2016 as application 15/005,963 · Granted Jun 4, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 325 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Jun 4, 2023
2011
2031
Clock starts
Jan 20, 2011
Jan 20, 2011
No longer in force
Jun 4, 2023
Jun 4, 2023
Granted
Jun 4, 2019
Jun 4, 2019
Term would have run to
Jun 4, 2031
Jun 4, 2031
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
325
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,247,015.
0 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
9
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 Jun 4, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 325 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 20, 2011, when application 13/010,681, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 25, 2016) | Jan 20, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +325 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 11, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,247,015) | capped to Jun 4, 2031 | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 4, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 4, 2023 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,172,762 | In force Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| Application 13/303,812 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,247,015 | In force no later than Jun 2031 | no later than Jun 2031 |
| US 9,229,900 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 9,697,285 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| US 9,674,136 | In force no later than Jan 2031 | no later than Jan 2031 |
| US 10,311,365 | this patent Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 11,290,412 | In force no later than Jan 2031 | no later than Jan 2031 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 2016 Reel 37577, frame 59 | Ruffner, Jennifer Granito; Blue, Allen; Alpern, Sarah Jean Culberson | LinkedIn Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 1, 2017 Reel 44746, frame 1 | LinkedIn Corporation | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 325 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,247,015.
Citations
10
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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