Collateral for a security interest recorded Nov 3, 2022 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Lapsed Dec 22, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 6, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Lyft, Inc.
Filed Apr 7, 2011 as application 13/082,095 · Granted Dec 22, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 234 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 22, 2023
2006
2027
Clock starts
Oct 6, 2006
Oct 6, 2006
No longer in force
Dec 22, 2023
Dec 22, 2023
Granted
Dec 22, 2015
Dec 22, 2015
Term would have run to
May 28, 2027
May 28, 2027
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
234
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
8
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 May 28, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 234 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 Oct 6, 2006, when application 11/539,560, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 7, 2011) | Oct 6, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +234 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 28, 2027 | 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 | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 22, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 22, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,937,075 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| US 9,219,811 | this patent Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 9,661,125 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,178,220 | Term ended no later than Oct 2026 | no later than Oct 2026 |
| US 10,477,010 | Term ended no later than Oct 2026 | no later than Oct 2026 |
| US 11,412,082 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 12,069,199 | Term ended no later than Oct 2026 | no later than Oct 2026 |
| Application 18/808,615 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 8, 2015 Reel 36755, frame 309 | AT&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc. | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 18, 2018 Reel 46115, frame 784 | Zellner, Samuel | BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 18, 2018 Reel 46377, frame 525 | AT&T Intellectual Property, Inc. | AT&T BLS Intellectual Property, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jun 18, 2018 Reel 46377, frame 665 | AT&T BLS Intellectual Property, Inc. | AT&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jun 18, 2018 Reel 47248, frame 306 | BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation | AT&T Intellectual Property, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jul 16, 2018 Reel 46556, frame 96 | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Prosper Technology, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 18, 2019 Reel 48097, frame 353 | Prosper Technology, LLC | Lyft, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 3, 2022 Reel 61880, frame 237 | Lyft, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
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Note
The 234 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
52
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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