Term ends Feb 7, 2033 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Freewheel Media, Inc.

Filed Feb 7, 2013 as application 13/762,115 · Granted Jun 14, 2016

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Feb 7, 2033

2013 2033

Clock starts
Feb 7, 2013

Term ends
Feb 7, 2033

Granted
Jun 14, 2016

base term 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

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.

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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Feb 7, 2013, when this application, 13/762,115, was filed	Feb 7, 2033	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	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	Feb 7, 2033	High confidence

This family

US 9,369,777	this patent Feb 2033	Feb 2033
US 10,250,952	In force Feb 2033	Feb 2033
US 10,667,021	In force Feb 2033	Feb 2033
US 11,290,789	In force Feb 2033	Feb 2033
US 11,962,871	In force Feb 2033	Feb 2033
US 12,532,051	In force no later than Feb 2033	no later than Feb 2033
Application 19/412,622	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
Feb 29, 2016 Reel 37850, frame 359	Haberman, Seth; Bress, Robert; Marcus, Claudio	Visible World, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 11, 2018 Reel 47216, frame 534	Visible World Inc.	Visible World, LLC	Change of Name
Sep 26, 2021 Reel 57600, frame 950	Visible World, LLC	Freewheel Media, Inc.	Merger

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.

What's changing

Feb 2033

Term ends Feb 7, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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