Also listed on Pebbles Ltd., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 27, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 13, 2032
Held by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Filed Jun 12, 2014 as application 14/364,727 · Granted Dec 13, 2016
Base term plus 318 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2033
Clock starts
Dec 13, 2012
Dec 13, 2012
Term ends
Oct 27, 2033
Oct 27, 2033
Granted
Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016
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
318
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 318 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 Dec 13, 2012, when application PCT/IL2012/050523, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 12, 2014) | Dec 13, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +318 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 27, 2033 | 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 | Oct 27, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,518,864 | this patent Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| US 9,869,580 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2015 Reel 35879, frame 733 | Grossinger, Nadav; Romano, Nitay; Gratch, Arnon | Pebbles Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 21, 2016 Reel 37545, frame 701 | Pebbles Ltd. | Oculus VR, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 4, 2016 Reel 40196, frame 790 | Oculus VR, LLC | Facebook, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 30, 2018 Reel 47687, frame 942 | Facebook, Inc. | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 8, 2022 Reel 60315, frame 224 | Facebook Technologies, LLC | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2033
Term ends Oct 27, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 318 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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