Also listed on Volomedia, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jun 17, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 25, 2026
Filed Oct 25, 2006 as application 11/586,989 · Granted Mar 18, 2014
Base term plus 601 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2028
Clock starts
Oct 25, 2006
Oct 25, 2006
Term ends
Jun 17, 2028
Jun 17, 2028
Granted
Mar 18, 2014
Mar 18, 2014
base term
patent term adjustment
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
601
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.
3
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 601 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 25, 2006, when this application, 11/586,989, was filed | Oct 25, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +601 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 17, 2028 | 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 | Jun 17, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,676,900 | this patent Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 9,367,862 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,410,248 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 2006 Reel 18474, frame 465 | Yruski, Andrey; Navar, Murgesh; Markovetski, Roman | Podbridge, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 14, 2008 Reel 20793, frame 380 | Podbridge, Inc. | Volomedia, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 3, 2009 Reel 23598, frame 714 | Volomedia, Inc. | Mustang Holdings LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 25, 2011 Reel 26175, frame 36 | Mustang Holdings LLC | Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 5, 2016 Reel 38617, frame 474 | Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC | Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC | Change of Name |
| Mar 30, 2020 Reel 53323, frame 567 | Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC | Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC | Merger |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2028
Term ends Jun 17, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 601 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
165
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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