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Animating Digital Graphics Overlaid on Visual Media Items Based on Dynamic Attributes

US 11,017,579 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed May 25, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by WhatsApp LLC
Filed Jul 30, 2020 as application 16/943,936 · Granted May 25, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 25, 2025
2017 2037
Clock starts
Sep 27, 2017
No longer in force
May 25, 2025
Granted
May 25, 2021
Term would have run to
Sep 27, 2037
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,460,499, US 10,740,947, to Sep 27, 2037. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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.

Its term would have run to Sep 27, 2037: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Sep 27, 2017, when application 15/717,795, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 30, 2020)Sep 27, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,460,499, US 10,740,947)resolves to Sep 27, 2037, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 25, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 25, 2025High confidence

This family

US 10,460,499In force
Sep 2037
Sep 2037
US 10,740,947In force
Sep 2037
Sep 2037
US 11,017,579this patent
May 2025
May 2025
US 11,468,619In force
no later than Sep 2037
no later than Sep 2037
US 11,645,806In force
no later than Sep 2037
no later than Sep 2037
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 26, 2020
Reel 53606, frame 777
Stukalov, DmitriWhatsApp Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 4, 2021
Reel 55559, frame 370
WhatsApp Inc.WhatsApp LLCChange of Name

Sources

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

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