Term ends Jan 19, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 31, 2036
Held by Salesforce, Inc.
Filed Jan 24, 2017 as application 15/414,089 · Granted Jan 25, 2022
Base term plus 506 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2038
Clock starts
Aug 31, 2016
Aug 31, 2016
Term ends
Jan 19, 2038
Jan 19, 2038
Granted
Jan 25, 2022
Jan 25, 2022
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
506
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,222,184, to Jan 19, 2038. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
23
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 506 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Aug 31, 2016, when application 15/253,385, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 24, 2017) | Aug 31, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +506 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 19, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,222,184) | resolves to Jan 19, 2038, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Jan 19, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,720,899 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 9,977,773 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| US 9,697,492 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 9,576,009 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,697,197 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,238,090 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 11,222,184 | In force Jan 2038 | Jan 2038 |
| US 11,232,268 | this patent Jan 2038 | Jan 2038 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 2017 Reel 41065, frame 871 | Platt, Daniel Joseph; Mujica-Parodi, Mauro Eduardo Ignacio, III; Birnbaum, Lawrence A.; Sippel, Alexander Rudolf; Drake, Jonathan Alden; Sherman, Peter Horace | Narrative Science Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 30, 2019 Reel 50237, frame 365 | Narrative Science Inc. | Cibc Bank USA | Security Interest |
| Mar 1, 2022 Reel 59640, frame 8 | Cibc Bank USA | Narrative Science Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 25, 2024 Reel 66884, frame 1 | Narrative Science Inc. | Narrative Science LLC | Change of Name |
| Mar 25, 2024 Reel 67218, frame 449 | Narrative Science LLC | Salesforce, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2038
Term ends Jan 19, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 506 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,222,184, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
27
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2022 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.