Term ends May 23, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 23, 2032
Filed Oct 28, 2016 as application 15/337,469 · Granted Mar 10, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
May 23, 2012
May 23, 2012
Term ends
May 23, 2032
May 23, 2032
Granted
Mar 10, 2020
Mar 10, 2020
base term
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 May 23, 2012, when application 13/478,582, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 28, 2016) | May 23, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | May 23, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,037,468 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 9,897,805 | In force Jun 2034 | Jun 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2014/039344 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,736,613 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 10,209,771 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 10,585,472 | this patent May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 10,146,302 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 10,966,045 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 2017 Reel 40990, frame 320 | Tokubo, Todd; Osman, Steven; Stafford, Jeffrey Roger; Mao, Crusoe Xiadong; Black, Glenn | Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2032
Term ends May 23, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.