Term ends Aug 9, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 8, 2038
Held by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Filed May 8, 2018 as application 15/974,454 · Granted Mar 2, 2021
Base term plus 93 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
May 8, 2018
May 8, 2018
Term ends
Aug 9, 2038
Aug 9, 2038
Granted
Mar 2, 2021
Mar 2, 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
93
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.
67
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 93 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 May 8, 2018, when this application, 15/974,454, was filed | May 8, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +93 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 9, 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 | Aug 9, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,990,174 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 11,337,652 | In force Sep 2039 | Sep 2039 |
| US 10,592,001 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 10,937,414 | this patent Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 11,216,069 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 11,635,736 | In force no later than Sep 2041 | no later than Sep 2041 |
| Application 16/165,841 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,504,286 | In force Jan 2039 | Jan 2039 |
8 of 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2018 Reel 46610, frame 483 | Berenzweig, Adam; Du, Alan Huan; Seely, Jeffrey Scott | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 20, 2020 Reel 51649, frame 1 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 29, 2020 Reel 51653, frame 195 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 10, 2020 Reel 51867, frame 136 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Data Previously Recorded at Reel: 051649 Frame: 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| May 5, 2020 Reel 53210, frame 883 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Was Erroneously Filed as Facebook Technologies, Inc. Previously Recorded on Reel 051649 Frame 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| May 26, 2022 Reel 60199, frame 876 | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Aug 2038
Term ends Aug 9, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 93 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
45
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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