Term ended Dec 20, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 20, 2024
Held by Meta Platforms, Inc.
Filed Sep 14, 2012 as application 13/620,647 · Granted Nov 5, 2019
Base term plus 95 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Dec 20, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Dec 20, 2004
Dec 20, 2004
Term ended
Dec 20, 2024
Dec 20, 2024
Granted
Nov 5, 2019
Nov 5, 2019
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
95
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 8,281,146.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
4
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 95 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Dec 20, 2004, when application 11/017,461, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 14, 2012) | Dec 20, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +95 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 25, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,281,146) | capped to Dec 20, 2024 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 20, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,882,360 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 8,281,146 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 8,949,943 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 10,469,471 | this patent Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2013 Reel 30956, frame 576 | Landsman, Richard A. | MBLX, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 7, 2013 Reel 30956, frame 600 | Landsman, Richard A. | MBLX LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 7, 2013 Reel 30956, frame 604 | MBLX LLC | America Online, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 7, 2013 Reel 30956, frame 622 | AOL LLC | AOL Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 7, 2013 Reel 30956, frame 718 | AOL Inc. | Facebook, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 7, 2013 Reel 30983, frame 978 | America Online, Inc. | AOL LLC | Change of Name |
| Dec 20, 2021 Reel 58961, frame 436 | Facebook, Inc. | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 95 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 8,281,146.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
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