Lapsed Aug 30, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 15, 2034
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Filed Aug 15, 2014 as application 14/461,044 · Granted Aug 30, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1030 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 30, 2026
2014
2037
Clock starts
Aug 15, 2014
Aug 15, 2014
No longer in force
Aug 30, 2026
Aug 30, 2026
Granted
Aug 30, 2022
Aug 30, 2022
Term would have run to
Jun 10, 2037
Jun 10, 2037
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
1,030
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
Its term would have run to Jun 10, 2037: its 20-year base term plus 1030 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 15, 2014, when this application, 14/461,044, was filed | Aug 15, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1030 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 10, 2037 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 30, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 30, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,426,123 | this patent Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Application 14/465,194 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 14/505,836 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,042,422 | In force Nov 2036 | Nov 2036 |
| US 10,188,309 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 10,101,809 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,251,577 | In force Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
| US 11,644,799 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 2014 Reel 34032, frame 467 | Bailey, Matthew; Lake, Stephen; Grant, Aaron | Thalmic Labs Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 10, 2019 Reel 49711, frame 596 | North Inc. | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 10, 2019 Reel 50777, frame 331 | Thalmic Labs Inc. | North Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jan 20, 2020 Reel 51649, frame 1 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 10, 2020 Reel 51867, frame 136 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Data Previously Recorded at Reel: 051649 Frame: 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Jun 7, 2022 Reel 60306, frame 247 | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
| Jun 24, 2022 Reel 60440, frame 884 | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
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Citations
115
later US patents cite this one
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