Term ends Mar 6, 2027 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Meta Platforms, Inc.

Filed Jun 14, 2011 as application 13/160,197 · Granted Jul 3, 2012

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Mar 6, 2027

2007 2027

Clock starts
Mar 6, 2007

Term ends
Mar 6, 2027

Granted
Jul 3, 2012

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.

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.

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. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Mar 6, 2007, when application 11/682,678, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 14, 2011)	Mar 6, 2027	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	3 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 6, 2027	High confidence

This family

US 7,680,882	In force Mar 2028	Mar 2028
US 9,600,453	In force no later than Mar 2028	no later than Mar 2028
US 8,214,457	this patent Mar 2027	Mar 2027
US 8,443,081	In force Aug 2027	Aug 2027
US 10,140,264	In force Mar 2027	Mar 2027
US 8,589,482	In force no later than Mar 2027	no later than Mar 2027
US 8,572,167	In force no later than Mar 2027	no later than Mar 2027
US 8,209,380	In force Mar 2027	Mar 2027

8 of 16 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
Dec 20, 2021 Reel 58553, frame 802	Facebook, Inc.	Meta Platforms, Inc.	Change of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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What's changing

Mar 2027

Term ends Mar 6, 2027. No further fees fall due before then

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, 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.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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