Term ends Oct 3, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 3, 2034
Held by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Filed Jan 29, 2018 as application 15/882,858 · Granted May 9, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014
Term ends
Oct 3, 2034
Oct 3, 2034
Granted
May 9, 2023
May 9, 2023
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 3, 2014, when application 14/505,836, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 29, 2018) | Oct 3, 2034 | 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 | None on record | no cap applied | High 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 | Oct 3, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,426,123 | Lapsed on the fee record 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2019 Reel 49310, frame 842 | Lake, Stephen; Bailey, Matthew | Thalmic Labs Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 30, 2019 Reel 49548, frame 200 | Thalmic Labs Inc. | North Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jun 4, 2019 Reel 49368, frame 634 | North Inc. | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 20, 2020 Reel 51649, frame 1 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 28, 2020 Reel 51647, frame 484 | 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. |
| May 5, 2020 Reel 52580, frame 387 | CTRL-Labs Corporation | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Correct Assignee 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 60441, frame 744 | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Oct 2034
Term ends Oct 3, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
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later US patents cite this one
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