Term ends Oct 9, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 7, 2034
Held by Oath Inc.
Filed Apr 9, 2018 as application 15/948,021 · Granted Aug 17, 2021
Base term plus 569 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014
Term ends
Oct 9, 2034
Oct 9, 2034
Granted
Aug 17, 2021
Aug 17, 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
569
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,410,816.
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 569 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 7, 2014, when application 14/271,960, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 9, 2018) | May 7, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +569 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 27, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,410,816) | capped to Oct 9, 2034 | 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 9, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,410,816 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 9,939,277 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 11,092,447 | this patent Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 11,965,745 | In force no later than Mar 2035 | no later than Mar 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2020 Reel 54258, frame 635 | Oath Inc. | Verizon Media Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 19, 2021 Reel 57453, frame 431 | Verizon Media Inc. | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 9, 2021 Reel 58350, frame 428 | Aiello, Luca Maria; Quercia, Daniele; Schifanella, Rossano | Yahoo! Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 9, 2021 Reel 58439, frame 77 | Yahoo! Inc. | Yahoo Holdings, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 9, 2021 Reel 58439, frame 581 | Yahoo Holdings, Inc. | Oath Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2034
Term ends Oct 9, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 569 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,410,816.
Citations
21
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
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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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.