Term ends Oct 2, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 6, 2038
Held by Niantic Spatial, Inc.
Filed Jul 6, 2018 as application 16/029,530 · Granted Jan 5, 2021
Base term plus 88 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Jul 6, 2018
Jul 6, 2018
Term ends
Oct 2, 2038
Oct 2, 2038
Granted
Jan 5, 2021
Jan 5, 2021
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
88
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.
5
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 88 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 6, 2018, when this application, 16/029,530, was filed | Jul 6, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +88 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 2, 2038 | 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 | Oct 2, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,885,714 | this patent Oct 2038 | Oct 2038 |
| Application PCT/US2018/041164 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,430,189 | In force Jul 2038 | Jul 2038 |
| US 12,307,606 | In force Jul 2038 | Jul 2038 |
| Application 19/081,614 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 26, 2018 Reel 46470, frame 94 | Finman, Ross Edward; Hu, Si Ying Diana | Niantic, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 22, 2018 Reel 46667, frame 770 | Finman, Ross; Hu, Si Ying Diana | Escher Reality, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 9, 2018 Reel 46822, frame 40 | Escher Reality, Inc.; Tater Acquisition Sub II, LLC | Escher Reality, LLC | Merger and Change of Name |
| Jan 6, 2020 Reel 51429, frame 97 | Escher Reality, LLC | Niantic, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 16, 2025 Reel 71555, frame 833 | Niantic, Inc. | Niantic Spatial, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2038
Term ends Oct 2, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 88 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
16
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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.