Also listed on Universal City Studios LLLP, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 21, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 30, 2027
Held by Universal City Studios LLC
Filed Aug 30, 2007 as application 11/847,612 · Granted Apr 21, 2015
Base term plus 1574 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2031
Clock starts
Aug 30, 2007
Aug 30, 2007
Term ends
Dec 21, 2031
Dec 21, 2031
Granted
Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015
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
1,574
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.
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 1574 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Aug 30, 2007, when this application, 11/847,612, was filed | Aug 30, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1574 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 21, 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 21, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,014,965 | this patent Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 9,296,400 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 10,183,685 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
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 23913, frame 494 | King, Steven Morris; Long, Henry William | General Electric Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 11, 2010 Reel 24065, frame 194 | General Electric Company | Universal City Studios LLLP | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 25, 2011 Reel 25866, frame 68 | Universal City Studios LLLP | Universal City Studios LLC | Merger |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2031
Term ends Dec 21, 2031.
Note
The 1574 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.