Term ends Nov 8, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 1, 2035
Held by ByteDance Inc.
Filed Dec 23, 2020 as application 17/132,915 · Granted Aug 27, 2024
Base term plus 160 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015
Term ends
Nov 8, 2035
Nov 8, 2035
Granted
Aug 27, 2024
Aug 27, 2024
base term
patent term adjustment
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
160
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 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.
4
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 160 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are 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 Jun 1, 2015, when application 14/727,852, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 23, 2020) | Jun 1, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +160 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 8, 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 | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 8, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,317,566 | In force Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
| US 9,741,058 | In force Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
| US 10,909,585 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
| US 12,073,444 | this patent Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2023 Reel 65044, frame 36 | L'huillier, Gaston; Larrain, Francisco Jose; Arroyo Garcia, Hernan Enrique; Li, Juzheng; Langdon, Daniel; Esterhazy, Jonathan; Vedanarayanan, Srinivasa Raghavan; Jeffery, Shawn; Karablieh, Feras; Bansal, Bhupesh; Levi, Dor; Koren, Amit | Groupon, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 18, 2024 Reel 69174, frame 409 | Groupon, Inc. | ByteDance Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2035
Term ends Nov 8, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 160 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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