Also listed on Yahoo Holdings, Inc., which filed it. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jul 8, 2027 · Medium confidence
Statutory term ends Dec 12, 2026
Held by Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
Filed Feb 17, 2009 · Granted Mar 20, 2012
Base term plus 208 days of PTA
Today
2006
2027
Clock starts
Dec 12, 2006
Dec 12, 2006
Term ends
Jul 8, 2027
Jul 8, 2027
Granted
Mar 20, 2012
Mar 20, 2012
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Oct 30, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Oct 30, 2026 and grant & fee data published Oct 27, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
208
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO PTA record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
17
Applications in this family
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain.
This patent's term runs 208 days past the statutory base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are paid, so nothing but the term itself will end it. Confidence: Medium. 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 Dec 12, 2006 | Dec 12, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +208 days, USPTO PTA record | Jul 8, 2027 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 8, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,756,903 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 7,630,972 | In force Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2007/086990 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 61/019,215 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,954,500 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
| Application 12/038,716 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 61/068,086 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 61/041,590 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 17 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first.
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, 2009 Reel 22756, frame 42 | Boerries, Marco; Ott Iv, Edward Stanley; Saft, Keith David; Davis, Marc Eliot; Kumar, Amit; Jessen, Erik Nis; Chum, Jonathan Merrel; Grinsted, George; Parry, Lee John; Taggart, Adam | Yahoo! Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 23, 2017 Reel 42963, frame 211 | Yahoo! Inc. | Yahoo Holdings, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 2, 2018 Reel 45240, frame 310 | Yahoo Holdings, Inc. | Oath Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 26, 2020 Reel 54258, frame 635 | Oath Inc. | Verizon Media Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 22, 2022 Reel 59471, frame 902 | Verizon Media Inc. | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. USPTO does not publish a per-patent fee page, so there is nothing to link to.
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What's changing
Jul 2027
Term ends Jul 8, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 208 days of PTA are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
63
later US patents cite this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2012 in our data have been cited yet, so we show the count and do not rank on it.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: base rule, PTA, PTE, disclaimer caps, fee overlay, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.