Also listed on Microsoft Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends no later than Jan 20, 2031 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Held by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Filed Apr 13, 2017 as application 15/486,492 · Granted Mar 29, 2022

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Ends no later than Jan 20, 2031

2011 2031

Clock starts
Jan 20, 2011

Ends no later than
Jan 20, 2031

Granted
Mar 29, 2022

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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

Unresolved

Terminal disclaimer

On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.

1 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 20, 2011, when application 13/010,681, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 13, 2017)	Jan 20, 2031	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved	no cap applied, and none guessed	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 2 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	no later than Jan 20, 2031	Medium confidence

This family

US 9,172,762	In force Sep 2032	Sep 2032
Application 13/303,812	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 9,247,015	In force no later than Jun 2031	no later than Jun 2031
US 9,229,900	In force Jan 2031	Jan 2031
US 9,697,285	Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2021	Jul 2021
US 9,674,136	In force no later than Jan 2031	no later than Jan 2031
US 10,311,365	Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2023	Jun 2023
US 11,290,412	this patent no later than Jan 2031	no later than Jan 2031

8 of 9 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
Apr 19, 2017 Reel 42063, frame 917	Blue, Allen J; Roslansky, Ryan	LinkedIn Corporation	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 1, 2017 Reel 44746, frame 1	LinkedIn Corporation	Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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What's changing

Jan 2031

Term ends no later than Jan 20, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed

Open question

A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Jan 20, 2031. We will not guess the cap.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above the median 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

This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. 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.

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