Term ended Dec 27, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 27, 2025
Held by Adeia Guides Inc.
Filed Feb 23, 2022 as application 17/678,623 · Granted Oct 3, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Dec 27, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Dec 27, 2005
Dec 27, 2005
Term ended
Dec 27, 2025
Dec 27, 2025
Granted
Oct 3, 2023
Oct 3, 2023
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
8
Family applications on record here
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This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 27, 2005, when application 11/318,811, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 23, 2022) | Dec 27, 2025 | 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 | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 27, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,768,388 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 8,730,028 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 9,747,783 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,026,301 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,692,360 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 11,288,949 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 11,776,384 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| Application 18/223,309 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 2022 Reel 59089, frame 315 | Rovi Solutions Corporation | Rovi Guides, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2022 Reel 59089, frame 345 | Putterman, Daniel; Peters, Gregory; Bullwinkle, Richard; Dykeman, Kim R.; Dietrich, Bradley | Mediabolic, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2022 Reel 59240, frame 646 | Mediabolic, Inc. | Macrovision Corporation | Merger |
| Feb 24, 2022 Reel 59595, frame 418 | Macrovision Corporation | Rovi Solutions Corporation | Change of Name |
| May 3, 2023 Reel 63529, frame 272 | Adeia Guides Inc.; Adeia Imaging LLC; Adeia Media Holdings LLC; Adeia Media Solutions Inc.; Adeia Semiconductor Advanced Technologies Inc.; Adeia Semiconductor Bonding Technologies Inc.; Adeia Semiconductor Inc.; Adeia Semiconductor Solutions LLC; Adeia Semiconductor Technologies LLC; Adeia Solutions LLC | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Oct 2, 2024 Reel 69085, frame 376 | Rovi Guides, Inc. | Adeia Guides Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Citations
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later US patent cites this one
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