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US 10,671,676 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jun 2, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Google LLC
Filed Nov 10, 2017 as application 15/809,356 · Granted Jun 2, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 267 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Jun 2, 2024
2004 2026
Clock starts
Jul 26, 2004
No longer in force
Jun 2, 2024
Granted
Jun 2, 2020
Term would have run to
Jul 26, 2024
base term 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
267
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 8,560,550, US 9,361,331.
0 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.
6
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 Jul 26, 2024: its 20-year base term plus 267 days of term adjustment for 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 26, 2004, when application 10/900,021, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 10, 2017)Jul 26, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+267 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 19, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,560,550, US 9,361,331)capped to Jul 26, 2024High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 1 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 2, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 2, 2024High confidence

This family

US 7,580,921In force
Nov 2026
Nov 2026
US 7,567,959Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2021
Jul 2021
US 8,560,550Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2025
Oct 2025
US 9,361,331Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2024
Jun 2024
US 9,817,825Term ended
Jul 2024
Jul 2024
US 10,671,676this patent
Jun 2024
Jun 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Aug 10, 2018
Reel 46609, frame 508
Patterson, Anna L.Google Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 10, 2018
Reel 46762, frame 356
Google Inc.Google LLCChange of Name

Sources

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

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