Also listed on Yahoo! Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Nov 3, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 15, 2033
Held by Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
Filed Oct 15, 2013 as application 14/054,500 · Granted May 10, 2022
Base term plus 749 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2035
Clock starts
Oct 15, 2013
Oct 15, 2013
Term ends
Nov 3, 2035
Nov 3, 2035
Granted
May 10, 2022
May 10, 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
749
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.
42
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 749 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 Oct 15, 2013, when this application, 14/054,500, was filed | Oct 15, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +749 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 3, 2035 | 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 | Nov 3, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,108,982 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,562,404 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 9,854,311 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,678,869 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| US 9,015,062 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| US 9,374,438 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 11,328,323 | this patent Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2014/018336 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2013 Reel 31410, frame 569 | Miller, Nicholas P.; Edwards, Simon D.; Milford, Alan J.; Kim, Denys P.; Schelfhout, Bart W.r. | AOL Advertising Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 30, 2017 Reel 43072, frame 66 | AOL Advertising Inc. | Oath (Americas) Inc. | Change of Name |
| Feb 24, 2020 Reel 51999, frame 720 | Oath (Americas) Inc. | Verizon Media Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 8, 2020 Reel 54645, frame 547 | Verizon Media Inc. | Verizon Media Inc. | Change of Address |
| Mar 22, 2022 Reel 59471, frame 863 | Verizon Media Inc. | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC | Change of Name |
| Mar 28, 2022 Reel 59515, frame 569 | Verizon Media Inc. | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2035
Term ends Nov 3, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 749 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
67
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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