Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 29, 2022 (Royal Bank of Canada).
Term ended Jun 28, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 27, 2024
Held by Yahoo Assets LLC
Filed Aug 29, 2008 as application 12/201,411 · Granted May 8, 2012
Base term plus 852 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jun 28, 2026
2004
2026
Clock starts
Feb 27, 2004
Feb 27, 2004
Term ended
Jun 28, 2026
Jun 28, 2026
Granted
May 8, 2012
May 8, 2012
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
852
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment 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.
5
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 852 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Feb 27, 2004, when application 10/789,722, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 29, 2008) | Feb 27, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +852 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 28, 2026 | 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 28, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,421,454 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2005/005814 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,407,963 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,176,066 | this patent Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 10,353,866 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Dec 16, 2021 Reel 58982, frame 282 | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC (Formerly Verizon Media Inc.) | Yahoo Assets LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 29, 2022 Reel 61571, frame 773 | Yahoo Assets LLC | Royal Bank of Canada, as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement (First Lien) |
Sources
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Note
The 852 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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