Term ended Dec 5, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 30, 2024
Held by Uber Technologies, Inc.
Filed Oct 29, 2004 as application 10/978,243 · Granted Aug 4, 2015
Base term plus 431 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Dec 5, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Sep 30, 2004
Sep 30, 2004
Term ended
Dec 5, 2025
Dec 5, 2025
Granted
Aug 4, 2015
Aug 4, 2015
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
431
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
43
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 431 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Sep 30, 2004, when application 10/955,966, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 29, 2004) | Sep 30, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +431 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 5, 2025 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 5, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/955,966 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/974,555 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,747,579 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 8,341,522 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 9,098,826 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,514,816 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application 11/000,687 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,798,401 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
8 of 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2005 Reel 16126, frame 206 | Jung, Edward K.y.; Levien, Royce A.; Malamud, Mark A.; Rinaldo, John D., JR. | Searete LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 18, 2015 Reel 35194, frame 751 | Searete LLC | The Invention Science Fund I, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 11, 2018 Reel 44603, frame 987 | The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. | Modern Geographia, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 23, 2019 Reel 49841, frame 19 | Modern Geographia, LLC | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Patent Assignment Agreement |
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The 431 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
22
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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