Term ends May 23, 2039 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 16, 2039
Held by Niantic Spatial, Inc.
Filed May 16, 2019 as application 16/413,907 · Granted Aug 3, 2021
Base term plus 7 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2019
2039
Clock starts
May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019
Term ends
May 23, 2039
May 23, 2039
Granted
Aug 3, 2021
Aug 3, 2021
base term
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
7
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.
4
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 7 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 16, 2019, when this application, 16/413,907, was filed | May 16, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +7 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 23, 2039 | 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 | May 23, 2039 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,082,681 | this patent May 2039 | May 2039 |
| Application PCT/US2019/032616 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,991,342 | In force no later than Aug 2039 | no later than Aug 2039 |
| US 12,659,447 | In force May 2039 | May 2039 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 2020 Reel 52923, frame 450 | Godard, Clément; Aodha, Oisin Mac; Firman, Michael; Brostow, Gabriel J. | Niantic, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 6, 2020 Reel 52043, frame 742 | Godard, Clément; Aodha, Oisin Mac; Firman, Michael; Brostow, Gabriel J. | Niantic, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 27, 2022 Reel 60326, frame 333 | Niantic International Technology Limited | 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
May 2039
Term ends May 23, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 7 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
30
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.
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