Also listed on Cooliris, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Lapsed Sep 16, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 9, 2030
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Feb 9, 2010 as application 12/702,577 · Granted Sep 16, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 337 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 16, 2026
2010
2031
Clock starts
Feb 9, 2010
Feb 9, 2010
No longer in force
Sep 16, 2026
Sep 16, 2026
Granted
Sep 16, 2014
Sep 16, 2014
Term would have run to
Jan 12, 2031
Jan 12, 2031
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
337
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
2
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jan 12, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 337 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 9, 2010, when this application, 12/702,577, was filed | Feb 9, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +337 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 12, 2031 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 16, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 16, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,839,128 | this patent Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2010/057226 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 2010 Reel 23917, frame 823 | Krishnaraj, Venkat; Shoemaker, Austin W.; Rathnam, Aditya; Bhumkar, Soujanya | Cooliris, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 31, 2014 Reel 32563, frame 456 | Cooliris, Inc. | Montage Capital Ii, L.p. | Security Interest |
| Nov 22, 2014 Reel 34241, frame 793 | Montage Capital Ii, L.p. | Cooliris, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 5, 2014 Reel 34398, frame 787 | Cooliris, Inc. | 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 |
| Aug 19, 2021 Reel 57453, frame 431 | Verizon Media Inc. | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 337 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
240
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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