Term ends Sep 24, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 29, 2033
Held by Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
Filed Jul 29, 2013 as application 13/953,151 · Granted Nov 10, 2020
Base term plus 422 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Jul 29, 2013
Jul 29, 2013
Term ends
Sep 24, 2034
Sep 24, 2034
Granted
Nov 10, 2020
Nov 10, 2020
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
422
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.
58
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 422 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 Jul 29, 2013, when this application, 13/953,151, was filed | Jul 29, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +422 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 24, 2034 | 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 | Sep 24, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,963,857 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 9,083,674 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 9,632,986 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 9,130,929 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 9,803,990 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 9,232,022 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 10,832,289 | this patent Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 9,386,011 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
8 of 58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2013 Reel 30896, frame 707 | Pavley, John Franklin; Song, Sang Chul; Timm, Sean Christopher; Mufti, Saad; Kyaw, Thu Rein | AOL Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 29, 2017 Reel 43052, frame 401 | AOL Inc. | Oath Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 26, 2020 Reel 54258, frame 635 | Oath Inc. | Verizon Media Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 22, 2022 Reel 59471, frame 863 | Verizon Media Inc. | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Sep 2034
Term ends Sep 24, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 422 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
20
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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